Monswiller: The municipality tests its flood response capacity during a large-scale exercise.

The scenario, based on the exceptional overflow of the Zorn, was launched at 8:17 a.m., at which point the mayor of Monswiller, William Picard, officially activated the Municipal Safeguard Plan (PCS). On Friday, April 25, in response to a request from the Saverne Community of Communes (CCPS), which designated Monswiller as a pilot municipality, the town participated in a full-scale flood simulation exercise to test its response capacity to such a phenomenon.

From 8:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., all municipal agents were mobilized and acted within their area of ​​expertise, under the coordination of the mayor, in charge of the smooth running of the exercise as "game master".

The simulated flood, described as "a thousand-year-old", affected several areas of the town: rue du Stade, rue de la Gare, rue de la Girafe, part of Grand'Rue, part of rue de la République, allée de la Rondelle and rue Saint-Michel.

Faced with the scale of the fictitious situation, the mayor called on the president of the CCPS, Dominique Muller, to obtain external logistical support: provision of meeting places for the affected residents, provision of buses for the evacuation of students from the school group and provision of generators.

The teams faced a series of disasters: drownings, power cuts, drinking water pollution and rescuing isolated or vulnerable people, among others.

This exercise made it possible to test the effectiveness of inter-departmental coordination, the responsiveness of agents and the robustness of the procedures provided for in the PCS, under the watchful eye of the Egee association and the Alsace-Moselle Water and Sanitation Syndicate.