The supplement survey magazine broadcast this Thursday evening at 10:50 pm on France 2 investigated the 80,000 tonnes of waste dumped each year in France. Among this waste there is polluted soil from the Grand Paris site, the largest current site in Europe. Some of these lands end near Rouen around an old quarry pond located between Cléon and Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf.
“We followed, on the advice of an anonymous informant from the port of Gennevilliers, a barge which found itself dumping land “ said this Thursday on France Bleu Normandie the journalist Pierre Lalanne author of the investigation. “This barge was found to dump land either from the Grand Paris Express, or from other sites. By having the land which was dumped directly on the commune of Cléon analyzed, we saw that these lands were sulphatedis even very sulphatic because nine times above the current standard. The sulphate is harmful, especially when it is put in water and there, it is the case since it is a quarry which became a pond and which is very close to the Seine “.
Unannounced checks are quite rare. Pierre Lalanne
The director of the Normandy DREAL reacted: “Surprised. It’s an alert for them. That’s what they say in the documentary. They make checks, of course, on these storage sites, but these checks are mostly announced in advance. operators. So we realize that unannounced checks are actually quite rare “ adds Pierre Lalanne. As for the society of Greater Paris “it has set up a system of tracing these lands. So, indeed, what is complicated is that it is at the port of Gennevilliers “.
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