ERDF lays down the overhead lines of the Omaha sector

Started in 2011, the landfill site of the electricity network of Vierville-sur-Mer, Colleville-sur-Mer and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer was reaching its final phase. Nine kilometers of medium-voltage lines supplying fourteen stations had been underground. Seven and a half kilometers of overhead lines remained to be laid.

One Friday morning, Boulevard Cauvigny, significant resources were deployed in the presence of elected officials. Jacques Mahé, head of ERDF, presented the intervention to them. The removal of the lines on the edge of the cliffs of Omaha was supposed to preserve the landscape, improve the quality of distribution and secure the network. With a total amount of 600,000 euros, the project concerned the supply of more than six hundred homes.

The different phases had required a slicer for the burial and a crane to remove one hundred and three poles. The lifting machine weighed forty tons and had a sixty-meter boom. The poles had to be passed through the nibbler: the scrap metal would be recast and the concrete transformed into everything for road construction.

The newspaper finally specified that the work had been quickly interrupted by a spectacular accident of the crane truck, treated in another article.

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