Tens of thousands of m3 of waste accumulated over the past 20 years in three communes in the Yvelines will begin to be cleared in the coming months, the mayor of one of them announced on Thursday. The barrier and day and night surveillance of the plots concerned, now completely prohibited to the public, begin this week, said at a press conference the DVD mayor of Carrières-sous-Poissy, Christophe Delrieu. "We are putting an end to twenty years of cacophony," he said.
The operation of pre-cleaning these wild dumps - large like "seven soccer fields", explained to 20 Minutes Alban Bernard creator of the page Déchargeons la Plaine, in March 20108 -, mainly consisting of construction waste (rubble, asbestos , etc.), the largest of which - 13,000 m3 - has been nicknamed "the sea of waste", will be implemented and financed by the department. The overall clearing, soil remediation and site redevelopment operation should last several years, according to the mayor of Carrières.
38,000 m3 of waste on private land
In the Carrières municipalities, Triel-sur-Seine and Chanteloup-les-Vignes have in fact been piled up over the years some 38,000 m3 of waste on private land, notably from construction sites in the Hauts-de-Seine, according to the mayor. In total, 750 plots belonging to 350 owners have gradually become open dumpsites. Formerly market gardening land but declared unfit for crops intended for human consumption in 1999 due to lead pollution, the wasteland, located about thirty kilometers west of Paris, has since been occupied mainly by Roma communities or of sedentary Travelers.
For Sylvie Goulet, president of the Association of Landowners and Farmers (APEA), "it's a relief". “It's been 20 years that we have been bothered by this waste, that we asked the public authorities to move. All alone, we small owners, there was nothing we could do, ”she explained. "It is a starting point but it is only the beginning of the fight", reacted for his part Alban Bernard, president of the Collectif Déchargeons la plaine, which recently set up an application allowing to list all the wild dumps from France.
A State-local authorities steering committee is responsible for bringing together institutional and private players to finalize the operation and a call for projects has been launched to design what will become of the site in the long term. "Everything is open," according to Christophe Delrieu. The total cost of the rehabilitation operation of the 330 hectares concerned should be around 3 million euros, entirely financed by the future private developer, according to him.
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