Small adrenaline rush at midday on the site drinking water treatment From toulouse. Shortly before 1 p.m., the Haute-Garonne firefighters were called by the managers of the Veolia plant to tell them that they were faced with a chlorine leak in a closed room on this site. Installed on the heights of Pech David, it supplies the entire Pink City with drinking water, i.e. a production capacity of 150,000 m3 per day.
Quickly, the members of the departmental fire and rescue service deployed a dozen machines on the spot and about fifty men. About fifty employees were also confined while rescuers carried out the first toxicity readings within the factory premises and around the site. During this time, the leak was plugged. Less than an hour after the alert was given, the device was lifted, no toxicity having been noted.