French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games…
French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge water storage basin meant to help clean up the River Seine, set to be the venue for marathon swimming at theSports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra praised Paris' ability “to provide athletes from all over the world with an exceptional setting on the Seine for their events.”Last year, swimming test events had to be canceled due to poor water quality.
“We are on time," the prefect of the Paris region, Marc Guillaume, said. “The beginning of the Games will coincide with water quality allowing competition. That’s a tremendous collective success.”The new storage basin “guarantees” that water can be stored even during severe storms, and will help water levels to"return to normal as quickly as possible,” she said.
The estimated cost of the cleanup efforts amounts to 1.4 billion euros , paid by the state and local authorities. About 35 fish species are now living in the Paris section of the river, up from only three in the 1970s, when waters were extremely polluted due to nearby industrial activities.
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