Learning the floods: in Chênée, a forgotten bief could dictate redevelopments
How to integrate the teachings of July floods in regional planning projects?The question arises in various places, and in particular in Chênée, since the conversion of the old LBC foundry is widely started.This plot is located in a meander where the Vesdre inevitably risks overflowing.The Walloon government has just commanded a general study in the river basin.Even if it is obviously upstream that problems must essentially be resolved, local actions downstream can be judicious.
The reflection is underway, but a new residential district remains planned: the depollution of the site requires the contribution of a thick layer of healthy land, and, with car parking on the ground floor and not in the subsoil, housing, on the floors, will be largely above the water levels.
In the preparations for the revision of the "sector plan", this administrative document which dictates urban interventions, the experts recommended modifying the banks on the left bank, to create a "flood park", and they discovered or rediscovered a BIEF, an old channel, which probably used to supply the wheel of a mill, which has become a sewer, then which was filled.In open sky, it could serve as a guideline to redraw the premises, which involves a complex site, with the displacement of the quay.The City of Liège has also started to consider registering this work in the work program subsidized by the European Regional Development Fund.In any case, they appear in a first list, a first preselection.What to get a budget.The first steps to be taken for this file, it is in the current spring.
