Two new toilets have been installed at the Orientis and the Republic Sports Park. Lorient (Morbihan) now has thirteen toilets open 24 hours a day and six others established in public buildings. Two others, already existing, were replaced by a more modern model on Place Alsace-Lorraine and Boulevard Joffre.
New, free, automatic, accessible to people with reduced mobility (PRM), these are the four new toilets offered by the city of Lorient.
Dry toilets
Small particularity for the toilets installed at the Republic sports park: they are dry toilets. Equipped with solar panels, the park's toilets will require more maintenance for agents, in order to empty the tank. “It is both an ecological choice, but also an economical one”declares Laure Dechavanne, deputy delegate for mobility, roads, public spaces and green spaces. Not being connected to the water service, it was simpler to install this type of ecological sanitation. New dry toilets are planned for “walker crossing points », where there is no water connection.
An important flow
These infrastructures meet a significant demand: toilets equipped with meters show averages of 10,000 to 15,000 uses per year.
Those on Place Alsace-Lorraine have 30,000, including 10% during the ten days of the Lorient Interceltic Festival.
Taking into account that it takes between €50,000 and €60,000 to install automatic toilets and €100,000 to maintain them, the City has thus allocated, at the end of 2022, an envelope of €450,000 over three years. This will also be used to replace three to four existing toilets and add one to two.
