Foul odors have become their daily life, due to the permanent flow of wastewater … The inhabitants of several residences in Pierrette au Lamentin can no longer take it. They now appeal to the responsibility of the competent authorities.
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The residents of the Les Cerisiers residence in Pierrette, in Lamentin, were fed up with them… They denounced a malfunction of the wastewater delivery pump laden with faeces… Water that spills onto the roadway, which causes strong nauseating odors … A situation that has lasted too long for the residents. However, work had been carried out but without really solving the problem.
Daily and continuous nuisance
It has been two years since the residents of the residence regularly experience this flow of wastewater. But for the past few months, it has been constantly. A situation that has become intolerable for many. In addition, the odor nuisance, the presence of worms, cockroaches, rats, and the appearance of allergic problems in some, has already convinced several residents to move. For Grégory Legrave, president of the co-ownership of the Les Plaines de Bourdon residence, “this is unacceptable“, especially since this sanitation problem is common to many neighborhoods and municipalities in the department.
Those who remain are now waiting for an answer, but above all an effective solution from the Community of agglomeration of northern Basse-Terre. They alerted the services of the prefecture, but also hope for the intervention of the Department of the Environment, Planning and Housing and the Regional Health Agency.
Major sanitation works planned
Requests heard by the mayor of Petit-Bourg and president of the CANBT, which counts, “to relieve the population”, to do a high pressure cleaning, hydrocuring. Technique which aims to descale and sanitize the entire network of pipes. Guy Losbar aware that the wastewater treatment plants in Petit-Bourg, but also in La Boucan, Sainte-Rose or Lamentin, must be repaired. Others located on the territory are obsolete. It is almost 8 million euros that it will be necessary to invest to allow a more sound management of sanitation, “he explained.
On the Pierrette side, major works are also planned.
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