Question 31839 — dangerous products

Summary

Mrs. Sandrine Mörch alerts the Minister of the Armed Forces to the endangerment of the citizens of her constituency by the Braqueville ballast pits site located in Toulouse, which has not been cleaned up to date. Indeed, on December 5, 2017, the MP had already alerted the Secretary of State to the necessary decontamination of the ballast pit site in her constituency containing ponds filled with 5,000 tonnes of nitrocellulose since the First World War. worldwide. In short, a decontamination of the site had been announced by 2022. However, no project relating to the decontamination of the site has started, but in addition a cable car is under construction on this same site, which is still polluted. The Braqueville ballast pits are ponds filled with 5,000 tons of nitrocellulose since the First World War to drown the surplus produced by the national gunpowder made useless by the end of the war. This powder keg was ONIA, the National Industrial Nitrogen Office, of sinister memory following the AZF explosion. If water makes the explosive inert, we know, however, that it is highly flammable in dry air and extremely dangerous, said to be equivalent to TNT. These ponds, located near the Oncopole and the former AZF site, could potentially expose local residents, employees and visitors to the Oncopole to danger, and all the more so as new development projects have seen the light of day and will see the light of day in the coming years. For example, in order to relieve road traffic congestion, a cable car between Oncopole and Rangueil will lead, from 2020, to residents flying over the ballast pits, which requires this decontamination to be carried out quickly. She would like to know what the Government plans to remedy this situation which has not not evolved since its first alert on the issue in 2017.

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