"It was a 150 (millimeter diameter) pipe that broke, not just a gas pipe." On Monday, the mayor of La Courneuve, Gilles Poux (PCF), spent part of his day monitoring the significant consequences of a water leak, which caused a road collapse and flooding, causing chaos in an area located on the border with Saint-Denis and the Franc-Moisin district.
The burst pipe occurred around 8 a.m., at the roundabout of the D30 (Avenue du Général-Leclerc and Rue Francis-de-Pressensé), Rue de Genève and Chemin du Crèvecoeur. "It's not linked to a particular construction site" as might have been feared by the proximity to the future Grand Paris Express station, at the crossroads of the Six-Routes, assures the office of the mayor of Saint-Denis and president of Plaine Commune Mathieu Hanotin (PS).
⚠ | Due to a burst pipe on a construction site on the edge of La Courneuve, 200 homes are currently without water. Refurbishment is underway and bottled water will be distributed. pic.twitter.com/rAQ9b7DwYe
— City of Saint-Denis (@VilleSaintDenis) January 15, 2024
Veolia teams spent much of the day trying to identify the source of the leak, which they did in the middle of the afternoon. The pipeline in question supplied about 200 families, to whom bottled water was distributed. "The road surface was badly damaged," says Gilles Poux. One car even got stuck. She was taken out by municipal police and a tow truck. »
Several lanes have been closed to traffic to facilitate Veolia's intervention. "And the roundabout will be closed for a little while," that is to say several weeks, Mathieu Hanotin's office announced this Thursday afternoon.