Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor of Paris, reaffirmed Thursday that "whatever happens we will bathe in the Seine" following the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, several events of which will take place in the river.
“We will inherit at least four basins, soon after the Olympics, in the Seine.
We have to say to ourselves that we will not jump bridges, we are going to put basins in the Seine on four sites which have already been identified”, reaffirmed the elected official during a round table during the festival “Demain le sport ".
Two to three billion euros to get there
"We had to inject almost two to three billion euros in total for this work", he added for this gigantic project, one of the main challenges of which is bringing waste water collection into compliance, via in particular the end of "poor private connections" upstream of the capital.
"That is a legacy of the Olympics, if there are no Olympics we do not bathe in the Seine", he added, alongside the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and the president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, Tony Estanguet.
He explained that "the tests this summer are very very very encouraging", "so whatever happens thanks to the Olympic Games, the quality of the water in the Seine will be much better and the tests this summer have shown that we are already at levels that allow swimming.
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