Six days after the fire at the Lubrizol plant in Rouen, farmers are in disarray. At least 1,800 farms are affected by soot fallout from the cloud of smoke. Vegetables, eggs, honey are confined in waiting for analysis. And milk too. More than 200,000 euros of dairy products are destroyed every day. Producers can not store large tanks indefinitely in tanks. Hundred liters of milk are thrown away each day, with certain risks for the environment.
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Since Thursday, Sophie Lacaisse, milk producer, was forced to dump 6,400 liters of milk on its plots. His 120 cows can not stop producing. "There, we empty the milk tank, with a milk likely to be contaminated, in our slurry tank to spread it on our ground.Where is the polluted milk? Is it going to end up in the plant? You will find it on your plate with wheat, or with barley! Is it going to flow to the water table? Then it is the population who will drink this contaminated water, "the producer regrets.
Fears about water contamination
The water table feeds the Cailly tributary of the Seine flowing below his field and at the bottom of Yannick's garden. The latter feels that the waters are already affected. "The color is not natural! When it rains, it turns brown but it is gray-black, says the local." The source is just next, two-three kilometers. We should see the bottom, and the fish. We already feel the first effects. "