A tile at 342,000 euros falls on Blanzac

An embankment collapsed at the beginning of the month and it is the entire budget of the commune of Coteaux-du-Blanzacais that risks being jostled. The embankment in question supports the small road known as Place du Château which climbs towards the elementary school of Blanzac and the Sessad (Special education and home care service). “A road which was once only a small rural road”, indicates Jean-Philippe Sallée, the mayor. It was understood that it was not necessarily configured to receive traffic. If the school located at the top of this feudal motte is not threatened, the municipality cannot let the situation deteriorate, especially since a house is just below.

“The Angoulême firefighters who came to the scene assured us that there was no danger”, reports Jean-Philippe Sallée.

But in the immediate future, he issued a decree to ban traffic on this access road. From next Monday, when classes resume, parents will have to take another path, via rue Saint-Nicolas and will be able to go down via rue de la Tour which will be one-way until rue de Bellevue, at the height of the little one. Housing agglomeration.

The parking spaces formerly reserved for the parents of pupils who came to drop off their children will be temporarily reserved for the staff of the school and the neighboring Sessad.

These are provisional arrangements while waiting for reinforcement work to be undertaken.

Not the first sag

However, this work is substantial, especially since the sagging observed was not the first. “We had already suffered another in the same sector this fall that we had planned to consolidate”, specifies Jean-Philippe Sallée. With an estimate of 70,000 €. Here is a second of 342,000 €. “However, we cannot do one without the other, which could increase the bill to more than 400,000 € and we do not have the means, except to give up the development work of the village”, worries the mayor. Especially since this type of degradation is not covered by the insurance of the municipality, if however it is insurable.

Jean-Philippe Sallée would like his city to be able to benefit from the natural disaster measure, which seems unlikely since this provision only takes into account insured damage. The mayor will therefore have to take his pilgrim’s staff to try to find funding from the Departmental Council or the state. With the obligation to act quickly.

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