Ten apartment buildings deprived of drinking water.
This is the consequence of an underground pipe rupture that occurred overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, shortly after midnight, in Asnières.
It was at 18, boulevard Voltaire that the incident occurred.
The rupture of the pipe caused a major water leak which itself caused a subsidence of the roadway on this commercial axis where traffic had to be interrupted.
The Water Company was forced to cut off the power supply to ten buildings, while it intervened to repair the damaged pipe.
A scenario that looks like deja vu.
Water leak tonight around 1 am with lifting of the road at 13 boulevard voltaire in #asnieres our penalty will have been on site.
Water cut between 1 and 28 bd Voltaire
Repair in progress at Suez (around 8 a.m.)
A big thank you to the services!@Ville_Asnieres pic.twitter.com/PuxabRPxoa
— Fred Sitbon (@fredsitbon) December 22, 2022
On September 30, a similar incident occurred in the neighboring town of Courbevoie.
A pipe had given way under the macadam on Boulevard de la Paix.
The water had also flowed there under the bitumen causing a subsidence of the roadway.
A collapse where an RATP bus was literally trapped.
A few months earlier, in May, it was on the other side of the Seine, in Neuilly, that a pipeline had also dropped on Avenue Achille Peretti.
The roadway and sidewalks of rue des Huissiers had been partially flooded, up to the intersection of rue du Château.
An area where the water had also rushed down the adjacent streets.
Again, several hundred residents woke up without running water.
An aging network
These repeated incidents bear witness to the aging of part of the network.
The Île-de-France Water Syndicate (Sedif), which serves 135 municipalities, is working with Veolia, its delegate, to renew its network, up to nearly 80 km of distribution network per year.
Others, such as the Sénéo water syndicate and its Suez delegate, rely on advanced technology to inspect the condition of the pipes connected to the Mont-Valérien drinking water production plant.
In early October, two PipeDiver robots were used to scan three cast iron or concrete pipes, laid between 1925 and 1957.
