Environment. The City’s technical services and Mayor Christine Guillemy visited Monday 1is July the disaster victims of Switzerland and tour the risk areas. The state of natural disaster will be declared in the prefecture.
Having made the findings, and the danger to the homes and infrastructure concerned being certain, the town hall decided to request a state of natural disaster. “We are not sure of obtaining it, but together with the victims, we will do everything to, and I hope, facilitate and speed up compensation,” says Mayor Christine Guillemy. Brottes is under water at the level of the Pont de la Suize, where several homes were surprised by a flash flood on the night of Sunday to Monday. “On Sunday evening, it was fine. Within an hour, there was 50 cm of water in the basement. I called my relatives for help to shelter as many things as possible. At 1:30 a.m. on Monday, we had to call the fire brigade,” says Elsa Palos. Pumping was still underway and more necessary than ever on Monday early afternoon thanks to machines rented by the family. At the neighbor, Jean-Marie Feria, the same situation: “No more “juice”, and more than a meter of water in the basement. The current of the Suize is incredible. It digs gutters in the garden so deep that they weaken the gas pipes, and the garden furniture had to be securely attached.”
Val-Barizien, Tanneries, Moulin-Neuf
The situation is also worrying in the old Tanneries district, where many homes have their feet in the water. Horses had to be evacuated urgently. On the wash house side, the level has dropped slightly but is still preventing Véolia from accessing the treatment plant and inventorying any material damage. “We will have a clearer idea of the potential damage to the infrastructure when the teams can approach the building,” emphasizes Justine Angelot-Godin. In Val-Barizien, below Rue Ribot, the Suize has also burst its banks, widely and forcefully, causing a home to be flooded. The Moulin-Neuf district is under high surveillance for potential landslides and fallen trees (daily jhm will return to the subject soon). “Nature is there, and it rightly wants to remind us of it. When I see that there could be eco-skeptics in the next government…”, sighs the mayor. It is true that for some, nature is like jam. The less we see, the more we spread it.
Elise Sylvestre
