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Maxime Cartier
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Dec 16 2024 at 5:46 p.m.
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Bad news for households in the Dieppe conurbation (Seine-Maritime). During the community council meeting on Tuesday, December 10, 20124, elected officials had to vote for the establishment of three royalties of theWater Agency Seine Normandy for 2025. They replace two other charges which have now been abolished.
This deliberation was not voted on willingly, since it generates a increase in water bill for households in the urban area: “It’s a government reform. It is unbearable, endured, incomprehensible and profoundly unfair, attests the president of the Agglomeration Sébastien Jumel. We transfer to users what the State no longer gives. »
Nearly €40 increase
Antoine Brument, mayor of Martigny and vice-president in charge of water, sanitation and rainwater, explains that this is a decision “imposed by the Water Agency and not by Dieppe-Maritime.
In 2022, elected officials were pleased to have been able to lower the price of water by €106 for households in the municipalities of the Agglomeration. And for Martigny, this action even made it possible to lower the bill by €272!
This year, the amount of royalties amounted to just over €34. In 2025, it should be around €73, “i.e. a bill that will increase by almost €40 per year for 120 m3or the consumption of a household of four people,” explain Antoine Brument and Sébastien Jumel. Or €3.50 per month. An increase which remains lower than the period before the 1is January 2022, where a household in Dieppe paid €4.36 per m3
The vote for this deliberation questions the mayor of Offranville, Imelda Vandecandelaere: “I don't see the point of voting if it is imposed on us,” she says.
If the Aggloo does not deliberate, it must bear the costs corresponding to the fees and it would remain liable to the Water Agency from 1is January.
At the scale of the Agglomeration, this increase would represent approximately €67,000 for sanitation and €60,000 for drinking water. Here too, the mayor of Offranville wonders “if we could not have taken this amount into account to avoid the increase for residents? »
Brief advice
Delaune swimming pool: the Agglomeration is now carrying out the construction project for the future Delaune swimming pool. The objective is to start work in September 2025, for 19 months of work with delivery hoped for in the second quarter of 2027.
Mobile health center: a diabetologist, an ENT specialist and a geriatrician should soon join the mobile health center team.
Subsidies: the Agglomeration provides financial assistance of €5,000 for the 12th edition of the Canadian film festival and €50,000 for the maintenance of the golf courses.
The mayor of Dieppe, Nicolas Langlois, responds that if Dieppe-Maritime assumed this increase, it would invest less in the maintenance of the water network.
“We are against, but we must vote for,” concludes Sébastien Jumel. However, it is envisaged that communities will come together to protest.
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