“When I went beyond my land, to the foot of the coast, I started to smell a horrible smell. It smells like death. The water in the creek is blue, there is toilet paper and a whole bunch of products and trash all the way up to the top. »
Sunday afternoon, Adrien Morat, a farmer who manages a collective orchard called Les Neuf Racines near Piedmont, in Mont-Saint-Martin, raised the alarm and called the firefighters from the Lexy rescue center.
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The latter, arriving on the scene a few minutes later, looked for the origin of this pollution. At two unoccupied houses, a pipe supposed to flow into the sewers was blocked. And this has been happening for several weeks.
Environmental damage procedure
What has since flowed into nature has a flow rate estimated by firefighters at 5 cubic meters per hour. They filled out an environmental damage form, before in turn alerting the Mont-Saint-Martin police station.
The agents also opened an environmental damage procedure. The sub-prefecture has been informed. The municipality's on-call services were on site this Sunday evening. Analyzes should be carried out quickly.
