Following Irma's visit in September 2017, the need to bury all the networks was recognized. Three years later, EDF, which already had part of its network buried, has almost completed the burial of the remaining 80 km.
EDF still has to build a section at Morne O'Reilly and Rambaud, it estimates that it will have completed its landfill site by March 31, 2021.
On the other hand, "the installation of optical fiber by SAS Tintamarre and the associated operators as well as the renovation of water and sanitation pipes by the EEASM will require several more months of work", indicates the Collectivity. “SAS Tintamarre will take charge of the fiber optic burying work (digital networks) still to be carried out over the next three years. The first works will concern sections of the main and secondary road networks. A work schedule will be communicated ”, specifies the COM.
For its part, the water and sanitation establishment (EEASM) warns of the need to launch several renovation projects of water pipes and the creation of sanitation networks, over the coming months, on the main road network. "With regard to the dilapidated condition of the pipes, Saur is forced to intervene on regular breakages, up to three interventions per day on average, which is not without disrupting road traffic", justifies the EEASM.
The president of the COM wishes that "this work is carried out as much as possible at night with the establishment of deviations". It brought together all the operators at the end of September (EEASM, Dauphin Telecom, MSR Cable TV, EDF and Saur) in order to ask them "to coordinate among themselves for a better efficiency of action. Each operator must give the Community its work schedule as soon as possible and inform the deputy general manager of the living environment delegation of any intervention on the public network to obtain proper authorization ”.
Once these landfill work is completed, the COM will launch the overall repair of the road surface (asphalt). He then reminded the operators “that once the road sections have been resurfaced, it will be strictly forbidden to dig the asphalt without the prior authorization of the Collectivity (decree of the President). This official authorization obtained, the company which will carry out work (electricity, fiber, water, cable TV) must imperatively restore the road. The company will have to use asphalt to fill and no longer just concrete ”. Daniel Gibbs also asked that companies do not wait several days before filling a hole in the road after their intervention. “You also have your responsibility. I ask you to proceed systematically to fill in the holes, the safety of our fellow citizens is at stake, ”he insisted.
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