“One flood per week is no longer acceptable”: towns in Yvelines under water twice in ten days

Two floods in less than ten days. In the memory of residents, we had never seen this. “We saw other floods, but not two in ten days“, says a café customer in the TF1 1 p.m. report visible at the top of the article. In Chevreuse and Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, today’s episode is a little less strong than that last week: around fifteen houses flooded, compared to fifty previously.

There is material damage, traffic difficulties and 180 homes without electricity. It’s starting to do a lot for the residents of Saint-Rémy. “Last time, it lasted two and a half days, and now it’s been cut since last night“, declares a man deprived of electricity. “We ended up with two centimeters of silt, and I’m being polite when I say silt, which means the sewers were emptying“, says a passerby.

“We no longer know how to tackle the problem”

Despite all these difficulties, life does not stop completely, particularly for what our team questions: “I still worked well, I’m not going to complain, because my loyal customers still came to enjoy the seafood directly“.

In Chevreuse, the town next door, the mayor barely slept all night. “For our citizens, a flood every ten years is feasible. When we get to one flood per week, it is no longer acceptable. […] We no longer know how to solve the problem“, explains Anne Héry-Le Pallec.

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In the short term, the mayor has only one solution to propose to her constituents, that everyone prepare themselves as best as possible, for example by installing cofferdams or by caulking.