A construction site of a hundred housing units was stopped in Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantique) pending the evacuation of a large quantity of waste visible in the embankment used, we learned Thursday from the town hall.
This real estate project was built on the site of a former landfill in this town located between Bayonne and Biarritz. The images of countless rubbish of all kinds, a few meters from a stream, notably posted on Twitter by journalist Hugo Clment, have been widely relayed on social networks.
Alert, the mayor of Anglet Claude Olive (LR) decided to interrupt the construction site on Wednesday, by making a report to the state services.
There will be no resumption of work until this waste has been evacuated, as it was agreed to do from the start. Their job today is to clean up the area, said the town hall of Anglet on Thursday.
The project, baptized Erreka, (the stream in the Basque language), is a project of Carrefour Property, the real estate subsidiary of the Carrefour group and contracting authority, with Eiffage as prime contractor.
Contact by AFP, Eiffage says he understands the emotion aroused by these videos, which show the content of this particular site, but filmed before the planned sorting and waste disposal operations.
Carrefour Property ensures that sieving operations, to extract the most important household waste, have been carried out since the opening of the site and that the excavated materials visible in the images have been removed by recent earth movements.
However, the company undertakes to sort the land concerned and evacuate the waste to appropriate landfills.
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It also guarantees that the feasibility studies, diagnoses and diligent studies upstream have made it possible to confirm the absence of health risk and to initiate on-site treatment.
The obligation to preserve agricultural or natural land to meet housing needs leads, and will increasingly lead, to the reuse, in compliance with the regulations, of sites already transformed and artificialized by human activity, as in the present case, underlines also Eiffage.
The stream bordering the plot will be protected by additional precautionary measures such as the installation of a fence to prevent rubbish from falling, adds the contracting authority.