society – Épernay – Environment
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The agglomeration’s climate plan provides for the planting of 100,000 trees and shrubs by 2025. (© Mikhail Nilov)
At the beginning of the decade, the Épernay agglo Champagne team made a commitment to plant 100,000 trees and shrubs on its territory by 2050. This involves large-scale projects, such as the one that the community has started , in mid-March, in the Vert-Toulon water catchment area. In all, 6,000 trees and shrubs have been sown around this 200-hectare underground water point, which supplies around 5,300 inhabitants. The interest of reforesting this site, classified as sensitive vis-à-vis the significant consumption of pesticides by viticulture, is to preserve the wetland and the grassland, strengthen the protection of the catchment field and improve the quality of the water table. groundwater, the wooded strips having a beneficial effect on groundwater and watercourses. Finally, the plantations will also be used to absorb CO2. When the milestone of 100,000 plants is reached in 2025, the Epernay agglomeration claims that 3,200 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year will be absorbed.
It should be noted that in parallel with this fine project, the commune of Vert-Toulon is also known for being located on the perimeter of the Vert-la-Gravelle liquid hydrocarbon deposit, active since 1985. With an area of approximately 23 km², this concession has four wells that produce oil and two servants to inject water from the deposit. The concession granted to IPC Petroleum France runs until 2028.
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