The measure lasted all day on Friday, before the white layer dissolved in the water. The swimming ban is maintained as a precautionary measure and a judicial inquiry has been opened.
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The prefect of the Somme has banned swimming and fishing on foot for the day of Friday, August 23, on the entire coastline of the department, reports France Bleu Picardie. This is a precautionary measure, while a white sheet one kilometer wide was spotted in the English Channel the previous evening.
This white sheet, which was approaching the beach of Cayeux-sur-Mer, finally dissolved in the water on Friday evening, according to the department’s prefecture, which is maintaining the ban on swimming and fishing on foot until new analyses of the water are carried out. “in the name of the precautionary principle”reports France Bleu Picardie.
The Somme prefecture indicates that it has received the results of the samples taken from this water table, composed of “fatty body”according to France Bleu Picardie, but she refuses to disclose its contents and announces the opening of a judicial inquiry.
A new flyover of the area will be made on Saturday morning “to confirm the absence of any trace of pollution”explains the prefecture of the Somme in a press release dated this Friday evening, as well as a new “situation point”.
The municipalities concerned are Mers-les-Bains, St-Quentin-La-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly, Ault, Woignarue, Cayeux-sur-mer, Lanchères, Pendé, St-Valery-sur-Somme, Boismont, Noyelles-sur-Mer, Ponthoile, Favières, Le Crotoy, St-Quentin-en-Tourmont, Quend and Fort-Mahon.