This is called a hell of a spring cleaning. Started for several months, the cleaning site of the tip of Bougeo Ar Pebr is coming to an end. Located southeast of the island of Ouessant (Finistère), this natural fault has served "for more than seventy years and until the recent past" as a real public dump. Not really the image of the wild and preserved territory that we have of the island of Ouessant. Concerned about the consequences of such a wild deposit on the environment, the Iroise Marine Natural Park has undertaken a complete cleaning of the chasm and the surrounding soils. "Communicating with the sea below, the accumulated waste is regularly detached and washed away by storms and tides," says the marine park.
On the side of a cliff, the site has long served as a storage room for the inhabitants. Ouest-France evokes in particular old balanced bicycles, car carcasses, a bus or water heaters. In total, just over 1,700 tons of waste were sorted and evacuated, including 1,100 tons of metals, during this restoration project. Amount of works: two million euros financed thanks to the France Recovery Plan, the European Union and the European recovery plan NextGenerationEU
Under the supervision of the French Office for Biodiversity, the work saved the fault from a probable collapse. "Over time, the site became unstable. The sides of the chasm slide towards the sea, risking the potential dumping of 8,000 m3 of waste and rubble, in the waters of the Iroise Marine Natural Park, in the immediate vicinity of the Iroise National Nature Reserve.
Other wild dumps will soon be treated, as promised by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron at the One Ocean Summit held in Brest.
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