The inauguration of the Vierville treatment plant

One Friday afternoon, the Vierville-sur-Mer treatment plant, Grandcamp road, was inaugurated in the presence of Roger Jouet, Vice-President of the General Council. After cutting the ribbon, he invited the personalities to visit the facilities.

Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant explained the wastewater circuit: they descended by gravity towards the beach, then pumps sent them back to the lagoon. The treatment was based on their slow passage from one basin to another until the fourth, with a reduction in discharges by evaporation and by the action of the wind. The mayor highlighted the simplicity of this system and its ability to absorb significant population variations in the four municipalities, from Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to Vierville.

However, the project manager announced the cancellation of a spreading demonstration: the fourth basin contained too little water. The lagoon had just been put into service, all the inhabitants were not yet connected and the strong heat of the previous weeks favored evaporation.

Jean-Marie Oxéant recalled the entry into the active phase of the union in January 1999. The objectives were to improve bathing waters, to bring comfort to residents, to better manage the urban planning of the four municipalities and to promote tourism as an economic engine of the canton of Trévières. The operation was to be provided by the SOAF.

During the wine of honor in the communal hall, he thanked his three vice-presidents, Raymond Birabent for Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, Patrick Thomas for Colleville-sur-Mer and Raymond Mouquet for Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, as well as all the delegates. He stressed that real collective work had made it possible to overcome the obstacles.

Roger Jouet presented the inauguration as the culmination of a long file and a dream sometimes considered unrealizable. He recalled that the absence of all-in-the-sewer in Omaha had long slowed down equipment and investments. The local will and the cohesion of the elected officials within the union had finally allowed the realization of the sanitation network.

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