From domestic wells to collective networks, this file traces the evolution of drinking water, sanitation and other intermunicipal services. The technical and administrative descriptions correspond to the old documents gathered in the collection, particularly around the 2011 PLU.
The participations of VIERVILLE
in the Intercommunal Unions with specialized vocation
Omaha Beach Intercommunal Water Supply Union (SIAEP)
Before the war, there was a complete absence of drinking water distribution.
Each house had its well(s) for domestic needs. The water table was very close, usually 2 or 3 meters deep. See page 649, the old covered wells of Vierville. For the drink, most villagers drank cider, but very lightly alcoholic cider, often obtained by lengthening the pure cider with well water.
A public washhouse was located in the center of the village. The basin still exists in the Fontaines district, but it is now dry. Nearby was a small pond called the pond or the drinker, dry today and not maintained. (See page 6531 photos of this pool)
The largest houses had an indoor distribution under pressure and had the water quality checked annually by the pharmacist of Trévières.
Most grasses and farms had a mare for cattle or ducks. These ponds were abandoned and blocked in the post-war years. For example, the Bricsart pond has disappeared, and the large pond located in the grass in front of the castle has been filled by the Americans for their circulation needs. (see the old plans below)
See page 46 the presentation of a teacher - secondary resident - on the batracians of Bessin and his desire to see ponds put back in place in Vierville. This would make it possible to find some of the diversity of wild species.
The public drinking water distribution was installed in the 1950s and commissioned in 1958
Drinking water production: state described in the old file of the 2011 PLU.
The municipality is supplied with drinking water by the Syndicat Intercommunal d'Adduction d'Eau d'Omaha Beach (SIAEP). It brings together 17 municipalities from Cricqueville to Etreham (Aignerville, Asnières-en-Bessin, Colleville-sur-Mer, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, Deux-Jumeaux, Ecrammeville, Englesqueville-la-Percée, Etreham, Formigny, Longueville, Louvières, Russy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Sainte-Honorine-Des-Pertes, Surrain, Vierville-sur-Mer).
The old file announced for 2011 or 2012 the attachment of the neighboring union of La Cambe, including La Cambe, Canchy, Saint-Germain-du-Pert and Cardonville. It then provided for a set of 21 municipalities.
(see the simplified diagram) of the network
The delegate is the company SAUR, which is responsible for the operation of the works, their maintenance, and the permanence of the service.
The municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer is supplied directly by the Asnières en Bessin production plant (80m3/h of capacity) and the Louvières reservoir (500m3 on a 52m tower between ground and overflow level). In 2000, the pumping of Asnières produced 215,494m3 (the Syndicate has water from another drilling in Louvières and a catchment in Russy).
The treatment plant in Asnières ensures biological deferrization and disinfection with chlorine gas.
There is no drilling or source used on Vierville-sur-Mer. However, the municipality is concerned by the perimeter of protection of the Louvières drilling.
Water quality:
According to Article L.1321-2 of the Public Health Code, "Any person who offers water to the public for human consumption is obliged to ensure that this water is suitable for consumption"
In 2009, the drinking water distributed in the municipality was of good quality.
All the results of the physicochemical and bacteriological analysis comply with the standard of Decree No. 1220-2001.
During the control carried out in February 2010 by the services of the Departmental Directorate of Health and Social Affairs, the water distributed complied with the standards in force for all the parameters measured.
It should be noted a slight overrun on the iron parameter which led to an increase in turbidity. In order to avoid these problems, the manager regularly purges the network.
The studies cited in this old file of the ARS de Basse Normandie - Délégation Territoriale du Calvados show that the quality of this bathing has experienced a significant improvement, with the implementation of collective sanitation: first alternating sufficient quality and insufficient quality, this bathing then experienced an improvement from 2003 to reach the right quality in 2006, then the "EXCELLENT QUALITY" in 2007. The very good 2010 season reinforces the excellent quality.
The 2010 results are very good and give an A ranking for the 4th consecutive season.
This study also made it possible to simulate the application of the new 2006 directive. The new European directive of February 15, 2006 was transcribed into French law in the Public Health Code and the ministerial decrees of 22 and 23 September 2008. Implementation began with the census of bathing waters during the summer of 2007 and will continue gradually until 2015.
This new ranking will not be made until the end of the 2013 season. By applying the new, more severe criteria, the results are often less favorable. The objective is above all to observe the evolution, which stands out better with this classification, and also the way that remains to be done to achieve at least sufficient quality.
Thus, the bathing waters are of good quality in the municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer.
It should be noted that a study of watersheds is underway at the level of the community of municipalities,
In particular for bathing water quality management
Production and Consumption:
The Omaha Beach union produced 356,184 m3 in 2009 (315,119 m3 in 2008, 396,057 m3 in 2000). This covers all volumes of drinking water distributed, i.e. 316,005 m3 in 2009. In the municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer alone, the total volume of water consumed outside VEG is 19,744 m3 in 2009, compared to 24,077 m3 in 2008. This corresponds to an average annual consumption of about 220 liters per inhabitant per day.
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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.
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The municipal territory is served by drinking water by pipes with a heterogeneous diameter varying from 50 and 140 mm and installed along the roads, especially for urbanized parts and crossing plots to reach the hamlets. The pipes are made of cast iron or PVC.
The P.L.U. project aims to welcome 30 additional inhabitants by 2020. If water consumption per capita remains the same, the needs would amount to 21,681 m3 in 2020.
The AEP resources of the Community of Municipalities are therefore of sufficient capacity to respond to the planned development of the municipality.
On this approximate plan of 1882, we see the 2 ponds that have disappeared since the war and the lavoir of Vierville. The latter was rather in the form of the plan below
Plan of 1872
The water tank of Louvières
Plan to protect a catchment in Louvières
The arm pump next to the church, it still works, a memory of the not so distant time when public water distribution did not exist (before 1955)
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This survey signed V. T. examined the nitrate content of the water distributed in the Bessin. It recalled regular checks and presented the threshold of fifty milligrams per liter as the then applicable regulatory limit, in reference to the decree of 20 December 2001. The article associated its overrun with consumption restrictions, especially for infants and pregnant women.
According to the latest samples cited, no municipality in Bessin exceeded this limit. However, some were close to it: 47.5 mg/l for part of Bayeux Intercom Ouest — Barbeville, Bayeux, Cussy, Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, Subles, Vaucelles and Vaux-sur-Aure —; 47.3 mg/l for the SAEP of the source of Thaon — Amblie, Thaon, Cambes-en-Plaine, Fontaine-Henry, Le Fresne-Camilly and Lantheuil —; and 46.1 mg/l for Bayeux Intercom Est — Monceaux-en-Bessin, Saint-Martin-des-Entrées, Saint-Vigor-le-Grand and Sommervieu.
Conversely, the drinking water syndicate of Omaha Beach displayed 2.5 mg/l. It served Asnières-en-Bessin, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, Deux-Jumeaux, Écrammeville, Englesqueville-la-Percée, Formigny, Longueville, Louvières, Saint-Pierre-du-Mont and Vierville-sur-Mer. Its president Jean-Marie Oxéant explained this result by two resources located under ten meters of clay, in an area of relatively protected traditional crops. He stated that requests for resource sharing were mainly demine with the quantity available. The union had helped Port-en-Bessin during a cut and regularly fed La Cambe, while maintaining room for manoeuvre.
Another part of Bayeux Intercom Ouest, including Commes, Longues-sur-Mer, Magny-en-Bessin, Arromanches, Manvieux and Tracy-sur-Mer, received water at 3.5 mg/l. For Les Oubeaux, La Folie, Monfréville, Neuilly-la-Forêt, Saint-Marcouf-du-Rochy, Saint-Martin-de-Blagny and Vouilly, the samples cited gave 28.8 mg/l to the capture of Colombières, 36.8 mg/l in southern Bernesq and 31.3 mg/l in northern Bernesq. The majority of the municipalities of Bessin were, according to the survey, between twenty-five and forty milligrams per liter.
A box explained that nitrates were among the frequent pollutants of rural groundwater, especially in connection with fertilizers and septic systems. He mentioned their role in infant methemoglobinemia, described as a defect in oxygen transport, and presented them as a possible indication of other pollution, bacterial or pesticide-related.
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The Renaissance (June 25, 2010) studied the quality of the Bessin waters from the point of view of their nitrate level. The result is exceptionally good in the case of water distributed here. The mayor of Vierville (also president of the SIAEP union on the date of the article) explains why in the article opposite.
Sanitation:
Syndicat Intercommunal du Littoral for collective subscription
and SPANC (Non-Collective Public Sanitation Service)
For the record, there was before the war a complete absence of sanitation.
Water was drained in lost wells, including for toilets, generally placed at the end of the garden, as far as possible from the wells used for domestic needs. Only a few houses had summary septic tanks, without treatment of effluents, which were sent to lost piuts dug under the toilets.
A collective sanitation was carried out by the Syndicat Intercommunal du Littoral in 2003-2005 for most of the agglomeration population.
The union includes 4 municipalities: Vierville, St-Laurent, Colleville and Ste-Honorine, each municipality having its own independent network.
For Vierville, the wastewater collection network and the treatment plant were commissioned on April 18, 2003.
The operation is provided by the SOAF.
In addition, the "sanitation" competence was transferred in full (collective and non-collective) to the Communauté de Communes de Trévières on January 1, 2004.
Opposite, the collective and non-collective sanitation areas (before the extension of the "collective" on the Formigny road up to and including the Isles farm)
Sewage treatment: state described in the old file of the 2011 PLU.
The municipality has chosen to limit the use of collective treatment to
- the agglomeration area of the village,
- the west part of the village
- part of the beach area
The rest of the municipality is in individual sanitation.
The sanitation network is of a separate type, it receives and must receive only wastewater. Rainwater is discharged either to a ditch or to a rainwater collection network.
The treatment plant is of the natural lagoon type by infiltration. It only treats wastewater from the municipality of Vierville sur Mer. The choice of lagoon treatment results from the consideration of various factors specific to the lagoons, including the ability of the four basins to absorb a rapid rise in load in the heart of summer, and maximum evaporation in the point period (wind and sun)
Its capacity has been set at 900 EH (Inhabitant Equivalent). Based on a daily consumption of 150l/inhabitant, or 135m3, or 49,275 m3 per year. The actual annual consumption of 2009 amounts to 11,282m3, or 31 liters per day, i.e. a quarter of the station's potential.
It is to note a regular decrease in the consumption of all subscribers due to a better performance of household appliances, flushes and the will for everyone to save drinking water.
With regard to rainwater, all urbanized sectors are equipped with a collection network: bused on all the roads of the village or in ditches at the level of the agricultural area.
The rainwater collection network will be extended in the village in the development sector of
Urbanization.
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Sainte-Honorine, Colleville, Saint-Laurent and Vierville were preparing a joint coastal sanitation program. Desired for more than ten years, the project responded, according to Jean-Marie Oxéant, mayor of Vierville and president of the union, to European regulations, the improvement of water quality, the comfort of residents and the needs of tourism.
One Friday, the representatives of the municipalities took note of the final file established by the DDA. Five treatment sites were planned: two in Sainte-Honorine and one in each of the other three municipalities. The first tranche was to serve 245 homes in Sainte-Honorine, 52 in Colleville, 210 in Saint-Laurent and 135, as well as the campsite in Vierville.
The investment reached forty million francs, 80% subsidized by the General Council, the Water Agency and Europe. Municipalities had to finance the remaining 20% with an interest-free loan. The financial structure was closed and the selected file had been transmitted.
Bernard Petit, mayor of Colleville, requested several changes on behalf of his city council, including a solution for the VVF. The technicians advocated a upgrading of the existing private installation; a partial connection could be studied, but not the whole, considered too expensive.
The mayor also wanted to serve areas excluded from the project, along the D 514 and at the hamlet of Cabourg, and presented these requests as conditions of participation. The president of the union replied that the modification deadline had passed and proposed a second installment the following year. Bernard Petit then left the meeting.
The union maintained its objective of completing the work before 2001 in order to benefit from the aid. He indicated that, if Colleville withdrew, the program would be continued in three municipalities.
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1999, the projects
The lagoon basins of Vierville,
Not far from the cliff, Grandcamp road
The first sanitation rehabilitations begin on the coastRead the rewritten text
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At the end of the non-collective sanitation diagnostic campaign launched in 2005, the first standard-up projects were underway on the coast. In the article of October 6, 2009, Céline Michaud, of the SPANC, announced seventy-three devices to be rehabilitated, with work started on June 8 and scheduled until November 15.
The perimeter selected was initially aimed at improving the quality of coastal waters: Maisons, Sainte-Honorine, Colleville, Saint-Laurent, Vierville and Louvières were concerned. The facilities could then benefit from subsidies of the order of 75%, including 15% from the water agency and 60% from the general council. A zero-rate eco-loan could complete the financing.
The Intercom, through the SPANC, provided administrative and technical management: soil study, assessment by bailiff before and after work, then rehabilitation of the land to the same condition. A call for tenders had selected a material supplier and two production companies.
A subsequent campaign was envisaged in 2011. President Patrick Thomines stressed the work needed to prepare for rehabilitation in the nineteen other municipalities. The aid would probably not be identical: some files could be capped at 50%, others would only benefit from the eco-loan, after individual examination.
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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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Inauguration of the treatment plant, 2005
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The last working meeting of 2009 made it possible to take stock of the ongoing extensions of the collective coastal sanitation network. President Patrick Thomines indicated that they would allow the integration of a tourist complex project and fifteen houses in a hamlet.
A new connection phase was to concern ten additional homes along the D 514 from January. Benjamin Orange, Intercom's road and network manager, said that the facilities would still retain 20% of their processing capacity after these extensions.
Similar work was planned in Vierville in 2010 and a study was to be launched for Trévières. The cut was published in La Renaissance du Bessin on Friday, January 8, 2010.
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The extensions of the collective service on the Grandcamp road, carried out in 2010/2011
More dispersed habitats are now bound on their side to individual sanitation in accordance with strict standards, monitored by an intercom service, the SPANC.
As such, this Community has created a SPANC, a service responsible for controlling private sanitation in areas where collective sanitation is not planned. In the municipality of Vierville, this service has made its skills available to ensure that their facilities are brought up to standard at the request of the owners concerned. Opposite a press clipping of La Renaissance du Bessin, dated October 6, 2009
Departmental Union of Electrification and Equipment of Calvados (SDEC-Energie)
Since the disappearance in 2001 of the Syndicat d'Electrification Rurale de Maisons, Vierville has been directly attached to the SDEC.
This union assumes on behalf of the Communes of Calvados their competences in the field of Public Electricity Service (Granting Authority vis-à-vis EDF).
In addition, the SDEC was charged in Vierville with the complete service of public lighting and project management for the erasure of networks
This could allow the erasure of the telephone air network on the Central and Eastern parts of Boulevard de Cauvigny, long awaited by local residents.
Optical fiber, territorial reform and wind at the appointment of the mayors in 2012Read the rewritten text
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La Renaissance–Le Bessin of October 26, 2012 reported on the annual meeting of the Amicale des maires du canton, hosted the previous Monday at the Château de Colombières by its owner, the Count of Maupeou. About a hundred people had been able to exchange with elected officials and administrations, in particular on territorial reform, the deployment of optical fiber and wind.
Jean-Léonce Dupont, president of the general council, presented the guidelines then envisaged for the territorial reform. He announced the abandonment of the territorial councilor, already voted according to him in the Senate, and wanted a lightening of the standards applied to local elected officials, whose number he advanced by about four hundred thousand. The reform was also intended to clarify the competences of the Department and the Region. It indicated that the municipal, European and senatorial elections were maintained in 2014, while the cantonal and regional elections were postponed to 2015.
A departmental fiber optic project
Fiber was supposed to allow locals and businesses to access connections exceeding one hundred megabits per second. The announced investment budget was one hundred and seventy million euros, including twenty-five million for the Department. Jean-Léonce Dupont compared this participation to the cost of one kilometer of highway and saw it as an important technological and competitive progress. It predicted that by 2015 seventy-five percent of the rural population could connect.
Frédéric Ollivier, Director General of Departmental Services, explained that the new network had to gradually replace copper wires. He highlighted the throughput capacity, longevity and ease of repair of the fiber. Three phases were planned: a collection network forming a departmental loop, a service network bringing fiber to the right of housing, by air or underground, then the connection of housing. According to the projections presented, ninety-eight percent of the homes could be connected without major work or expenses to be borne by the applicant.
Most of the project was to be completed in four years, with nearly two hundred thousand connected homes. The first municipalities mentioned were Aignerville, Bernesq, Colleville-sur-Mer, Écrammeville, Le Breuil-en-Bessin, Louvières, Maisons, Rubercy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, Saonnet, Saon, Trévières and Vierville-sur-Mer.
For municipalities in the white zone not receiving ADSL, a Wimax solution was announced on a transitional basis. The speeds mentioned were ten to fifteen megabits per second, considered higher than those of ADSL. This technology was to be erased as the fiber arrived.
A debate on the wind diagram
Monique Ménage, mayor of Russy, was concerned about amendments 461 and 482 relating to progressive energy pricing and the regional wind scheme recently discovered by elected officials and residents. She feared a disorderly multiplication of land-based wind turbines, with consequences on landscapes, heritage, tourism and the life of rural communities. She believed that the offshore park project should limit land-based installations and asked officials to intervene against the amendments announced for the Senate debate of October 25. She also recalled that wind was not, according to her, the only solution for the development of alternative energies.
The sub-prefect Zoheir Bouaouiche replied that the prefect had decided to revise the scheme and consult the elected officials again, the first steps having not been satisfactory. He presented the document as a guideline framework without a prescriptive nature, identifying more or less suitable areas. He indicated that elected officials would retain their role in building permits and that the areas would be discussed again.
Jean-Léonce Dupont added that a refusal of a permit had to be motivated to resist an appeal. He ensured to follow the revision of the scheme and wanted a less intensive land approach in return for the major offshore project, which he considered of national interest.
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Optical fiber, territorial reform and wind at the appointment of the mayors in 2012Read the rewritten text
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La Renaissance–Le Bessin of October 26, 2012 reported on the annual meeting of the Amicale des maires du canton, hosted the previous Monday at the Château de Colombières by its owner, the Count of Maupeou. About a hundred people had been able to exchange with elected officials and administrations, in particular on territorial reform, the deployment of optical fiber and wind.
Jean-Léonce Dupont, president of the general council, presented the guidelines then envisaged for the territorial reform. He announced the abandonment of the territorial councilor, already voted according to him in the Senate, and wanted a lightening of the standards applied to local elected officials, whose number he advanced by about four hundred thousand. The reform was also intended to clarify the competences of the Department and the Region. It indicated that the municipal, European and senatorial elections were maintained in 2014, while the cantonal and regional elections were postponed to 2015.
A departmental fiber optic project
Fiber was supposed to allow locals and businesses to access connections exceeding one hundred megabits per second. The announced investment budget was one hundred and seventy million euros, including twenty-five million for the Department. Jean-Léonce Dupont compared this participation to the cost of one kilometer of highway and saw it as an important technological and competitive progress. It predicted that by 2015 seventy-five percent of the rural population could connect.
Frédéric Ollivier, Director General of Departmental Services, explained that the new network had to gradually replace copper wires. He highlighted the throughput capacity, longevity and ease of repair of the fiber. Three phases were planned: a collection network forming a departmental loop, a service network bringing fiber to the right of housing, by air or underground, then the connection of housing. According to the projections presented, ninety-eight percent of the homes could be connected without major work or expenses to be borne by the applicant.
Most of the project was to be completed in four years, with nearly two hundred thousand connected homes. The first municipalities mentioned were Aignerville, Bernesq, Colleville-sur-Mer, Écrammeville, Le Breuil-en-Bessin, Louvières, Maisons, Rubercy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, Saonnet, Saon, Trévières and Vierville-sur-Mer.
For municipalities in the white zone not receiving ADSL, a Wimax solution was announced on a transitional basis. The speeds mentioned were ten to fifteen megabits per second, considered higher than those of ADSL. This technology was to be erased as the fiber arrived.
A debate on the wind diagram
Monique Ménage, mayor of Russy, was concerned about amendments 461 and 482 relating to progressive energy pricing and the regional wind scheme recently discovered by elected officials and residents. She feared a disorderly multiplication of land-based wind turbines, with consequences on landscapes, heritage, tourism and the life of rural communities. She believed that the offshore park project should limit land-based installations and asked officials to intervene against the amendments announced for the Senate debate of October 25. She also recalled that wind was not, according to her, the only solution for the development of alternative energies.
The sub-prefect Zoheir Bouaouiche replied that the prefect had decided to revise the scheme and consult the elected officials again, the first steps having not been satisfactory. He presented the document as a guideline framework without a prescriptive nature, identifying more or less suitable areas. He indicated that elected officials would retain their role in building permits and that the areas would be discussed again.
Jean-Léonce Dupont added that a refusal of a permit had to be motivated to resist an appeal. He ensured to follow the revision of the scheme and wanted a less intensive land approach in return for the major offshore project, which he considered of national interest.
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As part of an erasure of the electricity and telephone networks on the first part of Boulevard de Cauvigny, public lighting with 9 new streetlights was set up in the spring of 2002.
Boulevard de Cauvigny
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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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March 9, 2012 Removal of a concrete post from the MT overhead line, now replaced by an underground cable under Boulevard de Cauvigny
At the meeting of the mayors of the canton of Trévières, Vierville festival hall on October 22, 2010, the poles of France Telecom were strongly criticized. These are indeed the last air networks not erased on the beach of Omaha Beach classified as a major national site.
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At a cantonal meeting held on a Friday, Jean-Marie Oxéant denounced the maintenance of France Telecom's poles and cables between Vierville-sur-Mer and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, in the listed Omaha site. The mayor of Vierville regretted the lack of a precise response to his requests for burial and the refusal finally made by the regional management after many letters and calls.
Catherine Chartier, mayor of Saint-Laurent, shared this concern. Jean-Pierre Richard, general councilor and mayor of Trévières, also reported complaints from residents forced to dismantle part of their boats or catamarans to pass them under the wires before returning home.
Jean-Marie Oxéant believed that these aerial installations contradicted the efforts of the communities to preserve the views of the coast. He brought this refusal closer to the burial program presented by ERDF and asked why France Telecom did not follow the same approach.
The company representative replied that she had processed the letters sent to her, but could not immediately provide an answer to this particular question. The elected officials specified that their criticisms were aimed at the management of France Telecom and did not constitute a personal attack. The article is signed Murielle Bouchard.
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The mayors of Vierville-sur-Mer and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer strongly protested on a Friday against France Telecom's refusal to bury its telephone lines on the listed site of Omaha. This brief of a refers to an article on page 3.
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In addition, the night lighting of the church bell tower has been improved and put into operation in the evening until midnight during festive and tourist periods.
Interior lighting has been installed in the German 88mm cannon bunker
(Under the Memorial of the
National Guard of the United States).
Garbage collection union: (SIROM of Port-en-Bessin)
The SIROM of Port en Bessin ensures
1/ collection (removal early on Monday morning, and Friday morning in season) and transportation of ultimate waste (household bins) to the Esquay sur Seulles landfill. This ultimate waste accounted for 2722 tons in 2004 and cost the municipality 76.2 E per ton.
2/ the selective collection of waste sorted by the inhabitants themselves in the yellow bags and in the 3 special containers deposited on rue de la Chasse aux Prix:
- green container for glass: glass bottles only, without their caps.
- blue container for paper: papers, newspapers, advertisements, exclude plastic films and cartons
- yellow container for packaging: plastic bottles (crashed to save space), cans and cardboard.
Everything else: scrap, rubble, cardboard, branches, herbs, special household waste, batteries, paints, chemicals and harmful products, must be deposited in one of the SEROC waste disposal facilities (Port-en-Bessin, Grandcamp, Ecrammeville..., list and schedules in City Hall which provides the essential access card).
Sellers of household appliances and computers are required to take back the old equipment when shopping.
Selective sorting brings the municipality several euros per ton correctly sorted, which shows the financial interest of sorting. On the other hand, poorly performed sorting leads to the waste of the container and a return to the ultimate waste that costs the Municipality very much (household waste removal tax).
Below are images of the Esquay-sur-Seulles landfill:
Bessin household surplus and waste disposal facilities (SEROC)
Activities: Waste treatment and disposal - construction and management of waste disposal facilities - rehabilitation, maintenance and monitoring of old landfills (in particular the St Vigor-le-Grand landfill has become a place for wooded walks and educational visits).
Among the members of SEROC, we find the SIROM of Port-en-Bessin of which Vierville-sur-Mer is a member.
SEROC operates several waste disposal facilities, the easiest to access being Port-en-Bessin, Grandcamp and Ecrammeville.
The SEROC access card is obtained at the town hall.
See map of the Port-en-Bessin waste disposal facility and Access to the waste disposal facility.
Treatment of household surpluses in Bessin and waste disposal facilities (SEROC)
Activities: Waste treatment and disposal - construction and management of waste disposal facilities - rehabilitation, maintenance and monitoring of old landfills (in particular the St Vigor-le-Grand landfill has become a place for wooded walks and educational visits).
Among the members of SEROC, we find the SIROM of Port-en-Bessin of which Vierville-sur-Mer is a member.
SEROC operates several waste disposal facilities, the easiest to access being Port-en-Bessin, Grandcamp and Ecrammeville.
The SEROC access card is obtained at the town hall. Financial participation requested from professionals
Student Transport Union
For the record, responsible for ensuring the transportation of children from Vierville to the schools, colleges and high schools of Trévières and Bayeux.
