| Titre | La pollution du Gier | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Michel Blanchardon | |
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Revue |
Géocarrefour Titre à cette date : Revue de géographie de Lyon |
| Numéro | volume 50, no 3, 1975 | |
| Page | 273-292 | |
| Résumé anglais |
For a very long time in the past, the river Gier had been flowing pure waters, which all along the XIXth century, had drawn up to its valley many different industries. But the pollution of this little river (which ends its course in the « Rhône ») is altogether an old phenomenon. Modern analysis are supporting the attentive observer's conclusions : the river is utterly polluted and does not deserve any more the name of « river ». Its natural physical and chemical qualities have disappeared because of the numerous effluents coming most from industries, and abnormally few from domestic uses. Efforts are nowadays made to struggle against pollution. Within a few years, three purification complexes will be built. Those could not however have full effects, if every class of the population is not conscious of the problem. The towns in the valley are a mixture of old fashioned factories and antique semi-ruined houses. They must be renewed with an absolutely different point-of-view : industries being confined in the valley itself, residential districts built on the neighbouring heigts. This would made easier the purication of waters from different origins. Thus are underlined the strings between intensive pollution, an efficient purification, and old fashioned land texture. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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