“The year 2024 will be remembered for its exceptional rainfall: it is already one of the five wettest years since 1985, asks Quentin Revel, ecological transition project manager at the Permanent Center for Environmental Initiatives (CPIE) Brenne-Berry. Climate change is shaking up our territories, with extreme weather episodes becoming more and more frequent. »
Concerned about this issue, and to help make municipalities more resilient, the CPIE Brenne-Berry regularly organizes workshops for citizens, elected officials and municipal technicians of Indre, as in June 2023 in Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre , in April 2024 in Chabris, or in June 2024 in Lurais.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, was an afternoon of discussions for municipal stakeholders in Indre which was organized, at the Buzançais town hall, around alternative rainwater management techniques.
“If we plant trees without sending them water, it’s useless!” »
Christophe Chapron, head of the Studies and works center at the Urban Community of Greater Poitiers, introduced the session by presenting to the twenty or so people present the numerous innovative developments that the Poitevin conurbation has implemented in recent years: dewatered sidewalks, squares grassy parking spaces, passages for people with reduced mobility with slopes towards an adjacent green space, reverse slope roads to irrigate islands of greenery, etc.
“If we plant trees without sending them water, it’s useless!” »he summarizes. In short, there is no shortage of examples of good ideas. In Vienne, as in Indre.
Landscaped valleys in Issoudun and Écueillé
Marie Viano, director of the BIA.Géo design office, based in Issoudun, intervened, plans in hand, to explain the arrangements that her design office had put in place, with landscapers, in Issoudun and Écueillé. In the first case, in the Limoise area, where two large water retention basins were built, supplied by landscaped swales (ditches).
Marie Viano, director of the BIA.Géo design office, shows the plan for the redevelopment of old Écueillé, on which she worked.
© (Photo NR, Jean-Sébastien Le Berre)
In the second case, in old Écueillé, where valleys were also created perpendicular to the rue des Croissants, so that rainwater calmly joins the Tourmente, the local river. On this same street, parking spaces with a mixture of earth, stone and grass have also emerged.
“Disconnected” gutters in Poinçonnet
A system that John André is also thinking about, in charge of studies at the Châteauroux Métropole design office, who came with plans for his redevelopment project around the Beaulieu socio-cultural center.
“But there are other examples of projects underway in the agglomeration of Châteaurouxspecifies Quentin Revel. The François-Rabelais du Poinçonnet school group is installing “disconnected” gutters in order to direct rainwater towards rivers. »
By multiplying meetings like this, CPIE Brenne-Berry hopes that like rainwater, good ideas will also eventually trickle down.
A “Sport and climate” conference Wednesday November 27, 2024
The CPIE Brenne-Berry will also organize a conference on the theme “Sport and climate”, Wednesday November 27, 2024, from 2:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., at the Maison Départementale des Sports, 89, allée des Platanes, in Châteauroux.
On the program, a reflection on the impacts of the sporting environment on the climate and of climate change on sporting practices, the adaptation of the latter and the first feedback from experiences in Indre.
With testimonies from representatives of the municipalities of Argenton-sur-Creuse and the Blanc outdoor base, discussion times and the intervention of Aurélie Bourgoin, consultant “Ecological transition of sport” and co-editor of the WWF study “Climate disruption: the world of sport at + 2°C and + 4°C”.
Free, upon registration, at 02.54.39.23.43 or at [email protected]
