2024-06-12 16:34:45
The Mayor of Paris is not going to swim within the Seine on Might 23 however after the second spherical of legislative elections (July 7) and the beginning of the Olympic Video games (July 26). The Metropolis Corridor desires to arrange it on Sunday, to make it a well-liked occasion.
Anne Hidalgo is not going to swim within the Seine on Might 23, the date initially deliberate, however between the second spherical of legislative elections on July 7 and the beginning of the Olympic Video games on the twenty sixth, the Mayor of Paris introduced on Thursday. “It will not be Might 23”point out the socialists voted on the sidelines of the inauguration. “We’ll give ourselves time to get by way of the legislative elections and we might be in July, however earlier than the Video games”, he added. Corridor wished to arrange it on Sunday, to make it a well-liked occasion.
Earlier than the shock resignation introduced on Sunday by Emmanuel Macron, the date of June 23 didn’t actually matter as a result of “Heavy rain in Might and a really sturdy present of the river”, signifies the assembly cities in the beginning of June. The legislative elections occurred on Sunday June 30, the primary delay talked about, and on July 7.
The mayor promised to do that earlier than the Olympics “Historical past Drowning” within the river of the State and the areas of Ile-de-France have invested 1.4 billion euros to scrub it and make it swimmable. The star of those Olympics, the Seine will host the opening ceremony in addition to triathlon, swimming and paratriathlon occasions. However suspicion stays on the holding of the Olympic occasion because the “trial occasions” of August 2023 which needed to be largely cancelled: the water high quality didn’t meet European requirements primarily based on the analyzes of two fecal micro organism.
Plan B: postpone the exams for just a few days
Because the starting of June and the inauguration of the Austerlitz rainwater and wastewater retention basin, with a capability of fifty,000 m3, every day samples have been taken on the high of the Olympic web site. Within the occasion of heavy precipitation, untreated water – a mix of rain and sewage – could be launched into the river, an occasion that the retention constructions are meant to keep away from. The presentation of the outcomes and the chosen course of is deliberate by the top of the week.
Plan B is to postpone the checks for just a few days, however not change the state of affairs. Along with the circulate made in early July, 4 to 5 quicker than anticipated, making bathing harmful, the quantity of precipitation since November and the absence of solar, which kills micro organism, affect water high quality. Three bathing areas ought to open to the general public in the summertime of 2025 in Paris: Bras Marie, positioned between the Marais and Île Saint-Louis, Quai de Bercy and Bras de Grenelle, not removed from the Eiffel Tower.
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