Waste from Greater Paris: the inhabitants of Bardouville as a respondent to justice
Will the waste from the Grand Paris site fill the Mauny quarry (Seine-Maritime), not far from the hamlet of Beaulieu located in the town of Bardouville, in the heart of the loops of the Seine? In any case, this is the decision taken by the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, which issued an order on April 25 authorizing the company Environment and Minerals to operate the site to bury the trifle of approximately 400,000 m3 of inert waste, basically unpolluted.
An announcement that the 600 inhabitants of the village feared. The latter should therefore be crossed, for four years, by hundreds of trucks which will transport the rubble from the barges which will dock a few kilometers away, in Anneville-Ambourville. A perspective that Nathalie Haubert, the president of the association Les pieds dans l’eau at the head of the Bardouville collective in danger refuses to consider: “We will now turn to justice to enforce our rights”, assures you. she, confident about the chances of these appeals succeeding. He has a little less than two months to submit them. “We have listed on the file submitted by the operator to the prefecture at least 78 irregularities and erroneous information. And we are surprised that the State services have not identified them”.
In a press release, the prefecture highlighted the “measures intended to limit the constraints and nuisances mentioned by local residents”. And to list some of them such as “schedules for the prohibition of truck traffic (school entry/exit) and prior arrangements to connect to the RD64 (the only road that serves the hamlet) in complete safety”, “dust suppression and noise level measures imposed on the operator”, “analysis of each land barge”, just to be certain that the waste is indeed inert… and “preservation of biodiversity, the final objective being to return this plot to use as a calcareous meadow”.
“It is out of the question that the trucks cross our village”
So many precautions which do not neglect, according to Nathalie Haubert, neither the tranquility nor the safety of local residents, supported by many local elected officials who have also written to the prefect to inform him of their opposition to this project.
The members of his association have therefore already planned several events in the days and weeks to come. “We want to do it in a festive way to unite the greatest number of people around us. Because if it happens here, it can also happen elsewhere. It is our mobilization that made it possible to inform the population, which made the elected officials react. We have said it from the start: it is out of the question for trucks to cross our village and this preserved natural area. We are not the garbage can of Greater Paris! »