US EditionRise of the Water: Houses Destroyed
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In the Finistere, residents were asked to leave their homes, threatened by the erosion of the coast. These were bought by the collectivite and then built. A first in France.
Two houses in the municipality of Treffiagat (Finistère) have been razed in a preventive manner, to anticipate coastal erosion and the risk of marine submersion.
In Brittany, in the Finistère, houses were destroyed in the face of the risk of erosion. This is the case in Treffiagat, where the first blows of excavators were given on Friday 6 June, in the morning. In total, seven of them are involved. The works, carried out in recent years to strengthen the dune, did nothing to prevent the sea from moving forward. About 20% of our coastline is threatened. In 2028, it is considered that 528 dwellings could d…
On Friday, June 6, 2025, two of the seven houses in Treffiagat-Léchiagat (29) bought by the community of communes were destroyed, because they were too exposed to the risks of marine submersion and coastal erosion.
Several houses in Treffiagat (Finistère) will disappear after several years of attempts to strengthen the dune that protects the village from the ocean.
In Brittany, some municipalities located on the coast are facing an increasingly urgent threat: erosion, which gradually niggles the land. According to an article in France 3, this critical situation pushes Breton cities to make radical decisions. A strategy to anticipate the rise of the waters The municipality of Treffiagat, located in the southern Finistère, in Brittany, has decided to take the lead and to take action. The State and the commun…
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