The prefecture of Oise alerted Saturday on a "microbiological pollution" detected in a network supplying water to fifteen small towns in the department, as well as in Seine-Maritime and the Somme. This pollution, of fecal origin, "makes the distributed water unfit for human consumption", announces the prefecture in a statement. It asks the users not to use the water of this network, even boiled, "for any food use or brushing of the teeth".
More than a dozen communes are affected
The municipalities of Lannoy-Cuillery, Saint-Valery-sur-Bresle, Broquiers, Moliens, Monceaux-l'Abbaye, Romescamps, Saint-Thibault, Fouilloy and Escles-Saint-Pierre, in the Oise, and Criquiers, in the Seine, Maritime, are affected in all their territories. Certain hamlets of the communes of Abancourt, Blargies, Saint-Arnoult and Sarcus, in the Oise, and Hescamps-Saint-Clair, in the Somme, are also affected.
It is the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Hauts de France who discovered the pollution during a sampling carried out under the "regulatory health control", says the prefecture.