Saint-Christol-lez-Alès: Benoît oil depots still waiting to be pumped!

Soil pollution, due to oil infiltration, is also a concern. Stéphane BARBIER – STEPHANE BARBIER

Chronicle of a pollution predicted… Installed by the firefighters and then the town hall, the dams containing the extinguishing water and the oils from the Benoit company have given way due to the recent rains. The heavy rains predicted predict pollution that will reach as far as the Cassagnoles bridge on the Gardon…

Once again, it is nature that risks paying the high price…
After the fire that destroyed its premises (July 9), dams had been used to contain the extinguishing water loaded with oil. But since then, nothing… Despite a municipal decree produced by Mayor Jean-Charles Bénézet, the company has still done nothing. And the expected heavy autumn rains risk creating heavy floods, causing pollution via the Carriol river, as far as the Cassagnoles bridge in the Gardon…