After sheltering the inhabitants, the time came to assess the damage after the flood which affected Isère, and in particular the town of Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, where a hundred isolated people were evacuated by helicopter. since Friday. An “assessment mission” was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu.
The start of work “in the coming days”
“The first emergency was shelter, the second is now reconstruction,” the minister declared on BFM TV. “an evaluation mission” to “very quickly release an emergency fund for local authorities” and allow work to begin “in the coming days”. The minister also assured that the state of natural disaster would be recognized in “around two weeks” for the affected municipality.
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As a reminder, the decline began on Saturday morning, giving way to a sad face of the town where the flood completely cut off the main road of the hamlet and caused the evacuations of its occupants by air. No less than four helicopters were mobilized in the town of Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, where the evacuated hamlet found itself isolated from the departmental road under a torrential flood from the Vénéon torrent. According to Christophe Béchu, some “200,000 m3 of water” flowed down the valley.
