"All These Burnt Trees Will No Longer Play Their Part as a Pump": After the Summer Fire, the Fear of Flooding in the Arcachon Basin

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While several million pine trees burned by the megafire this summer will no longer pump water on the watershed, the Arcachon Basin Intercommunal Union took stock of its actions

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Some 37,000 hectares of forest were destroyed this summer by a giant fire in Gironde. Millions of trees that were absorbing water have thus disappeared. The municipalities of the Arcachon basin fear flooding this winter. - "Pines no longer pump water": after the forest fires this summer, the Arcachon basin fears floods (Environment).

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The SIBA (Arcachon Basin Intercommunal Union) presented on Tuesday, 8 September, the actions launched since the summer fires, aimed in particular at carrying out urgent measures to prevent flooding.