Africa-Press – Seychelles. Twinned since October 11, 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 period, the district of La Digue and the Commune of Petit Caux have just shared ten days together which will be milestones in the minds of those who participated in exchanges of great wealth.
Since November 2022, the Diguois who had received the Caux Marins on their land have exchanged together so that, during these nine months of preparation, everyone can present a quality program so as to allow the two populations to make the most of the fruit of these work that has always been carried out with joy and good humor.
The delegation of the third island of the Seychelles archipelago with twenty-six (26) members was welcomed at the “Windsor” a high quality hotel located by the sea in Dieppe. Without wasting time and after a presentation of the program, the actors of the two delegations got to work in the conference room of the town hall, Petit Caux.
A varied and busy program
The program was very coherent. Guided tours alternated with work meetings.
This is how from the first day the people of Digue were able to visit the museum of the history of daily life with the discovery of tools and machines that were several years old and which imagine what life was like for the inhabitants through the cooking, heating, clothing, shoes… The world of agriculture and its cultivation tools is also present in this exhibition. The music satisfies music lovers who discover instruments that no longer exist on the market but which still make it possible to emit melodious sounds. From the first day, the friends from Digue were able to taste the famous goat’s cheese made locally.
It is quite obvious that it was necessary to discover the territory of Petit Caux by taking a visit by bus, because this represents about ten kilometers since today, since a prefectural decree of 2016, the 18 former villages of the community of communes are united under the banner of Petit Caux, which now has almost ten thousand inhabitants.From the second day, the two work teams presented the action sheets in order to prepare for the future. All the organizations such as early childhood, the municipal youth council, education, people of the third and fourth age were mentioned. Health, culture and sport were also taken into account.
The Diguois were impressed by the meeting places and the party rooms which are made available to the population of Petit Caux who can also indulge in the practice of dance, music as well as many activities. sports.
Penly nuclear power station
From an economic point of view, the nuclear power plant of Penly, commune of Petit Caux, is a living force which has certainly not been established by chance in the commune. The La Digue delegation was received by the management of this ultra-modern entity. Before the visit of the twenty-six people from La Digue, Sylvestre Radegonde, then Ambassador of the Seychelles in Paris and his Minister Counselor Ralph Agrippina had been able to discover this installation, a true industrial jewel of the Petit Caux.
Of course, the company’s senior engineers and technicians know perfectly well the history of the creation of this atomic power plant.
It took ten years of studies and gigantic works for this truly impressive project to begin, because the structure located by the sea can withstand the onslaught of sometimes unleashed waves. The safety and robustness of the installations depend on the solidity of the protective dikes.The cliff composed of chalk must be consolidated in order to be able to dig galleries where the pipes will circulate. The buildings of a power station must be built on a good foundation. 17,000 tonnes of scrap metal were needed to provide the ventilation resistance. The ten thousand tons of waterproof and airtight concrete have been laid.
The pumping station is equivalent in size to a five-story building. The turbo generator set weighs 4,900 tonnes. Four hundred and twenty tons of paint were used.
1782 people worked on the site to develop it.
Today, 750 employees work day and night.
Safety was paramount. Audiovisual assembly panels and a newspaper distributed to workers limit the risk of accidents.
It is important to point out that no serious accident was to be deplored.
It is good to inform in the near future that a Seychellois team can move to Penly in order to obtain more information on the atomic power plant.
If Penly by its size can supply thousands of electricity users, it is possible to envisage a power plant suitable for a country of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants. The Penly power plant can currently supply electricity for the entire North-West region of France.An exemplary water treatment plant
Water is life. Many countries that are short of pure drinking water can take the example of the Petit Caux wastewater treatment plant. During the merger of the various communes of Petit Caux, the new municipality decided to create its own water treatment plant which supplies each household. As a result, water costs less compared to what is practiced in other towns in the sector. Water filtering is practiced through the plants that grow in a real swimming pool requiring a minimum of personnel and expense. This explains the cheap prices of water which in certain regions of the world is becoming a rare commodity.
In 2018 Georgie Nicette the fisheries manager in the Seychelles and Brigitte Joubert the deputy director of the Seychelles Tourism Academy presented the problem of drinking water in Normandy; these two experts had impressed representatives from 48 countries.
The Eiffel Tower, the Champs Élysées, a stroll on the Seine and the department stores…Everything has an end, even the good things! Before leaving France, the Seychellois Friends had to go to Paris, the capital that many consider to be the most beautiful in the world. Before spending their last euros in the department stores, a boat tour of Paris was scheduled to discover the wonderful monuments and this Eiffel Tower that the whole world envies us.
Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, this Tower imagined by Gustave Eiffel was to be destroyed after this event, which at the same time hosted the second Olympic Games of the modern era. This was not the case and that’s all the better!
After a visit from His Excellency Georges Tirant who had arrived a few days earlier at the Seychelles Embassy in Paris, the Petit Caux and La Digue group appreciated the presence of the Ambassador accompanied by Jacques Belle, the Minister Counsellor.
The return to the Seychelles must have been moving for this delegation which we are convinced will keep a very beautiful memory of this beautiful trip to Petit Caux for a long time.
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