Louvières drilling must improve water supply

The Omaha Beach water syndicate gave its consent on Thursday to the operation of the Louvières drilling, intended to complete the Asnières resort and to solve in particular the feeding difficulties of Colleville-sur-Mer from 1988. The president, Mr. Oxéant, recalled that it had taken seven years to solve the pollution problem.

The pumping tests of the previous year were considered satisfactory in quality and quantity. The article indicates a flow rate of forty cubic meters per day, with peaks of one hundred cubic meters per hour. Located in the south of the municipality, the drilling should, according to the presentation made, neither reduce the flow of Asnières nor dry up the neighboring agricultural wells. It was to meet the needs of campsites and increase tourist reception capacities. The station would be equipped for chlorination and water softening.

The union was also considering helping neighbors, with funding, especially that of Grandcamp. For its two thousand subscribers, who had consumed 245,000 cubic meters in 1986, the price of water was to increase by 5%. The department took care of 55% of the station's investment, presented as costing two million francs; the announced remainder, eight hundred thousand francs, was to be financed by loan.

The union's budget was balanced, but pipe replacements were necessary in Englesqueville-la-Percée and Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, for 43,000 francs. The corrosion of some pipes was attributed, at first glance, to slurry spills. Farmers who had suffered excess water or other inconveniences during pumping tests were to be compensated soon.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The units of the printed flows (40 m³/day and peaks of 100 m³/hour) are inconsistent with each other; they are kept as data of the cut, to be verified. The rounded figures of the cost, the subsidy and the rest to be financed do not exactly meet.

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