Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
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Downloadback in 2017 Paris mayor and hialgo
reinforced one thing in the city's final
push to host the 2024 Summer Olympics
that its famous river the sen would be a
key fixture of the games including an
historic Olympics opening ceremony the
first held outside of a stadium for
which French officials initially said
there is no plan B and that Open Water
Swimming events would be held in it it's
not hard to see why the S runs along
some of paris's most famous landmarks
like the Eiffel Tower and notam the
thing is swimming has been banned in the
s for a century and that's because the
river sen has human in
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it like many Urban waterways around the
world the S takes on sewage overflow
during heavy rain when the city's
underground sewer systems get
overwhelmed with STM water hiago even
said she would take a swim in the sen
herself ahead of the games French
president Emanuel macron promised the
same thing they say they're confident
because of an enormous underground
infrastructure project they've built
near the river to ensure as much as
possible that it won't on their
parade this isn't the first time Olympic
Open Water Swimming events the triathlon
paratriathlon and Marathon swimming were
at risk of being canceled last minute
due to water quality issues we saw some
of the same headlines during the 2020
Olympics in Tokyo and the 2016 Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro in both cases they
pulled it off and Paris hopes to do the
same but the journey to clean up the S
hasn't come without a few setbacks a
preliminary event in the river scheduled
for August 2023 was cancelled when Water
Analysis showed an unacceptable amount
of eoli in the
water ecol are bacteria that originate
in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded
animals presence of them in water is a
strong indicator of recent feal
contamination which can make you very
very very sick in order for an Open
Water Swim event to be given the
go-ahead Water Analysis reports must be
submitted no more than 48 hours prior to
competition those samples cannot exceed
more than 1,000 cfu Colony forming units
of eoli per 100 mL of water and 400 cfu
of okaki another bacteria associated
with feces test results published Just 4
months ahead of the games showed that
River samples taken at this bridge the
site of Open Water Swimming events still
failed to get under that crucial 1,000
number for permissible levels of ecoli
you can see where this contamination is
coming from by taking a look at this
1852 map showing how the original Paris
sewer system was built it dumps right
into the S which is gross but it's not a
problem that's unique to Paris many
Urban sewer systems work this way before
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your first month many cities that built
sewer systems in the mid 1800s to early
1900s like Paris did installed what's
known as a combined sewer system in a
combined sewer system the same pipes
that handle waste water also handle
storm water which gets collected through
storm drains in the Street everything
gets sent along to be processed at water
treatment facilities and then Cycles out
to the natural environment when it rains
a lot the sewers can get to full when
this happens rather than flooding back
into the street the excess combined
waste water and storm water gets
partially redirected to a nearby
Waterway which is why ecoli levels in
water can Spike dramatically in the
hours following heavy rain it's because
that water was recently contaminated
with so you'll see signs near combined
sewer outfalls that prohibit swimming
swimming after Heavy Rain if that
happens during the Olympics it could
mean canceling Open Water Swimming
events so Paris built a giant
tank this 13.2 million gallon capacity
underground reservoir and tunnel is part
of a$ 1.5 billion US infrastructure
project that aims to clean up the S it's
called The alwoods Basin built near the
alets metro station right by the senent
with the tunnel running under the river
to the sewers French officials open the
Basin Less Than 3 months ahead of the
Olympics opening ceremony which is
scheduled for July 26th I'll let this
guy explain how it
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works basically the system will hold
excess water so the sewers don't get
overwhelmed in a rainstorm and then it
will methodically release the water back
through the sewer system giant
reservoirs like this have worked in
other cities with big populations like
the thoron composite Reservoir outside
of Chicago which can hold nearly 8
billion gallons of Wastewater and this
combines SE outflow facility in the
parat Basin in New York designed to
prevent contamination of the Basin and
nearby Jamaica
Bay the osto Basin isn't designed to
clean the SC that's an ongoing
multi-prong process this project was
built to prevent further and sudden
contamination of the sen from combined
sewer overflow the goal according to
French officials is to resort to opening
the sewer overflow Gates that dump into
the sen no more than twice a year
compared to the current rate of 10 to 15
times per year Paris will continue
testing as the Olympics rapidly approach
but Hidalgo and mcon have yet to swim in
the
S even if all goes perfectly according
to plan a significant rainstorm could
still contaminate the sand forcing Open
Water Swimming events to be
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postponed the idea of making the sand
swimmable again goes beyond just the
2024 Olympic Games it seems to be a good
thing to start last in this annual race
through Paris because the river s gets
so full you could almost walk over the
swimmers in front it brings the city
back to a time when the river was a
place for parisians to cool off in the
summer instead of a biohazard once the
Olympics are over that becomes the next
phase of this project according to Mayor
Aon hadalo three swimming sites in the
sen will open to the general public in
2025 thanks to the games
as for the plan to host the opening
ceremony along the S French president
Emanuel macron has now said that there
are backup plans if the security risk is
too high whether or not Open Water
swimming will be possible can only be
determined hours before the events and
will be at the mercy of rain meaning
making the scense swimmable in time for
the Olympics is going to take a lot of
work and a lot of luck
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