Heavy rainfall in the region of Saint Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais, caused the formation of torrents of water and mud in several municipalities. In Longuenesse and Wizernes in particular, the damage is significant: houses invaded by water and mud, cars displaced and, in a farm, a hundred pigs drowned.
In Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, in the Pas-de-Calais, the flood of the river Liane flooded the surrounding houses. The postman makes his rounds with his bike perched on a truck. The rescue comes to the aid of the most isolated residents. Not far from there, in Condette, a couple is in its fourth flood since the beginning of the year.
In Bourthes, in the Pas-de-Calais, the flood of the river Aa caused flooding and cut off some traffic. The baker decided to distribute the bread in a tractor. The floods, which recurred in the region, had not reached this extent since 1988. Serge Carlu, First Deputy, discusses the projects envisaged to limit the damage in the future.
In the Pas-de-Calais, the banks of the Hem River are the subject of a management and restoration plan including an ecological redevelopment to limit the risk of flooding accentuated by concretization. A dam was demolished to better distribute water volumes in case of flooding. Interviews with Benoît Blazejewski, head of the catering division at the Pas-de-Calais Fishing Federation, and Elodie Maurice, animator of the Caps et marais d'Opale Regional Natural Park.
Record rainfall in the Pas-de-Calais region causes rivers to flood, fieldss, roads and even homes to flood. In Montreuil sur mer, a whole district is under water. A resident testifies: he has been waiting for ten years the construction, announced, of a protective dam.
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