Work on Christmas Eve, that may come as a surprise. The residents of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée were surprised to discover two unexpected construction sites on Tuesday, December 24. For these two operations, the municipality communicated the reasons for this work.
The first concerns emergency work on the church’s lightning rod. “the copper conductor cable connecting the lightning rod to the ground was torn from the structure of the building at the level of the church spire,” explains Bernard Dubouil, mayor of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, in a press release published the same day.
Impossible to achieve before December 24
“To ensure the continuity of the flow of lightning towards the ground, it was necessary to establish an emergency by confirming the summer of this assembly,” continues the elected official. He specified that it was impossible to carry out this operation before the morning of December 24. It took a morning to complete the repair.
The other project concerned the sanitation network on rue de Paris, which “cracked over a length of 50 meters”, indicated Bernard Dubouil. “The only possibility of repair was to open the roadway, display the network during the intervention, collect the wastewater using a pump truck and transport it to the treatment plant.”
The mayor of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée specifies: “this period from December 23 to 30 was not chosen at random but according to road traffic and in particular the planning of exceptional convoy passages which, at this period , does not circulate.