The Rhône prefecture plans to strengthen monitoring of PFAS, eternal pollutants, in groundwater. This involves launching a new in-depth study of groundwater over a year.
In Pierre-Bénite, Arkema and Daikin produce fluoropolymers and as such handle PFAS. Since a series of journalistic investigations in 2022, the two industrialists have been under surveillance. But pressure is increasing on the platform: searches took place this week as part of a judicial investigation for “endangering the lives of others” and the metropolis of Lyon took them to court to try to enforce the polluter pays principle. The decree relating to this reinforced surveillance “could be signed by the beginning of May” The prefecture will modify the initial decree to guarantee that this level is “maintained and further lowered in the coming months” The operator “already respects” an intermediate level which had been set for September 2024, notes the prefecture.