2023-08-22 19:23:07
The investigations did not last very long. According to information from Chained Duckit is a badly closed sewer valve which would be at the origin of the pollution of the water of the Seine last weekend, within the framework of the triathlon competition with test value for Paris 2024. information confirmed to Le Parisien by the town hall of Paris, according to which the preferred hypothesis at this stage is that of the malfunction of a valve in the sewerage network located at the level of the Tolbiac bridge (13th century), very upstream of the Alexandre- III where the canceled competitions were to take place.
Saturday and Sunday morning, the laboratory analyzes of the samples taken by Eau de Paris revealed a level of bacteria too high to maintain the triathlon swimming events in the Parisian river. Sunday morning the level of bacteria noted was between 1,300 and 1,400 CFU per 100 ml, against the 1,000 CFU per 100 ml set by World Triathlon to authorize the maintenance of the swimming events. As a result, swimming was removed from the program of events, which suddenly included only running and cycling.
Confident for the Olympics
Since Saturday the City of Paris and the Prefecture of the Region but also all the actors who work on the Seine had launched investigations to understand what could have polluted the Parisian river. They did not hide their perplexity in the face of the results of these laboratory analyzes while remaining confident for the good organization of the Olympic Games next year.
“Investigations are continuing to understand the sequence of events and determine the measures to be taken in order to guarantee the perfect quality of the water for the holding of the events in 2024”, says one from the side of the town hall of Paris. “It’s rather good news if it’s just a technical problem” observes an elected official from the Town Hall. The work of the services of the city and the Prefecture will have to determine whether it is indeed a simple technical problem or a malicious act.
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