Economy. the company Remea, specializing in the treatment of polluted soil, is established in Gaillon. It undertakes, through a charter, to limit its impact on the environment and on local residents.
The partition which closes the large sheet-metal building three quarters of the way on the Seine side prevents you from seeing the river. However, it is from the Seine that 60% of traffic the company Remea will transit. A traveling crane is used to unload the barges. The other 40% of the traffic will be by road to Chemin de Halage in Gaillon, where the earth treatment company installed a new platform this fall.
With possible noise and environmental pollution to the key.
“We cannot oppose economic development and the environment”, pleads the sub-prefect of Andelys, Virginie Sené-Rouquier, who came on site on the occasion of the signing of a commitment charter. It is also the first initialed in the Eure department. “We have to find a balance between attractiveness and tranquility for residents. “
Jobs at stake
The document, signed between the City of Gaillon and the company, governs in particular the schedules, respect for speed, and the access routes to the site. Heavy goods vehicles must travel on the RD 316, then take the Garenne La Grande road, and the Halage path. A maximum of fifty trucks should travel in the direction of Remea daily.
Responsibility to the company to make respect, by the carriers, the charter. Violators are exposed to penalties in the contract. Police officers and gendarmes will increase the number of checks to ensure that the route is respected.
The arrival of Remea in Gaillon was accompanied by the creation of four jobs. About ten employees, mainly operators and a site foreman, should swell its ranks over the 2021-22 financial year and “Depending on the ramping up of the activity”, says the president of Remea, Pierre-Yves Klein.
The company has a processing capacity of 128,000 tonnes per year. It specializes in “cleaning” polluted soil. “We are giving polluted sites a future. Where there is human activity, there is pollution ”, presents Pierre-Yves Klein.
Thus freed of its pollutants – often hydrocarbons, the earth, valued, is resold to be reused “For backfilling quarries, for example, as a road underlay, in topsoil … there are applications in development”, states the president.
“We are creating control conditions to allow the impacted land to no longer be considered as waste. “ In fact, the company registers “In the regulatory context of the solidarity economy. “
Two types of treatment
But how to “clean up” the earth?
“We use two types of treatment, on the one hand biological thanks to bacteria naturally present in these lands, which boost our development. “ Clearly, bacteria eat pollutants and naturally cleanse the land. The other technique is called washing, is more marginal. As its name suggests, it is about washing the soil until it gets rid of its pollutants. “Here we are treating these lands, analyzing them to ensure their reuse. “
A cycle of three to four months of treatment is necessary “Depending on the concentration of pollutants. “ The action is billed between 40 and 80 € per tonne depending on the concentration of pollutants, to which must be added the cost of transport, between 10 and 30 € per tonne.
Pollution can take place directly on site but in order not to impact the sites, often construction and development, they are sent to Remea. The choice of Gaillon is not innocent for the company.
The city is located on the Seine-Normandy axis, which is what Remea was looking for, already established in other cities such as Lyon and Marseille. Remea has already intervened in the region, in particular on the Brealis site in Grand-Quevilly, or in the center of Rouen to reconvert a site intended to accommodate a center for young people in difficulty.
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