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Le 17/10/2024
Exercise POLMAR plan, Pornic, France
🌊📢For several years now, Le Floch Dépollution has held a number of POLMAR-Terre contracts. In this context, we were asked by the DDTM of Loire-Atlantique to take part in an exercise that took place on October 1, 2024 in Pornic, during which we helped deploy a containment boom on land and clean it up with a high-pressure cleaner.
🎯 Organizing this type of exercise is essential for assessing response capabilities and, in this specific case, coordinating operations between public and private partners and thus ensuring a rapid response and effective management of response operations during accidental pollution incidents.
Le 23/09/2024
Rehabiliation of Ouessant's landfill, France
🎥🎬We would like to thank the French Biodiversity Agency for producing this film on the experimental worksite to rehabilitate the Bouge Pep of Ouessant landfill, which retraces the progress of this exceptional challenge! This operation will undoubtedly remain one of our company's emblematic operations, as well as an enriching personal and professional experience for each and every one of us!
Congratulations once again to our team, who worked in a very special context, but who, as usual, were able to demonstrate their adaptability, flexibility and, above all, professionalism.
Le 18/07/2024
Focus on the leachate treatment worksite at SMPF, Saint-Fromond, France
Many thanks 🙏 to Barbara Boisnard and Cayola Médias for the article published in the specialist magazine Mat Environnement, highlighting our leachate treatment worksite located at SYNDICAT MIXTE DU POINT FORT with the installation of a tailor-made treatment combining reverse osmosis filtration and evapo-concentration technology, enabling us to adapt to the site's constraints and issues.
Le 10/06/2024
Design and installation of oil spill response booms and tidal compensators, France
We would like to thank ALPHA Nautique Services for trusting us to take part in this project, for which we :
👉 custom-designed the rails and tidal compensators
👉 supplied the anti-pollution boom
👉 provided assistance with the installation of the system.
The rail and tide compensator system enables the boom deployed between the rails to follow the movements of the water and differences in water level over significant heights.
Le 24/04/2024
Visit with ITOPF and IOPC Funds in London
We were delighted to visit London in April, to exchange views with ITOPF on the various pollution incidents we have worked on together (over 20 years of partnership!), and to meet new recruits. We were also able to meet the IOPC Funds, which was also involved in the MT Princess Empress spill in the Philippines in 2023, on which we intervened.
Le 09/04/2024
Supply of containerized and motorized reels
We have just completed the production of 2 custom-made motorized (thermal and electric) and containerized reels for our customer EUROSORB.
These reels will enable the storage and deployment of several hundred meters of anti-pollution boom.
👉 Containerization protects the reel and facilitates storage and handling in port areas, warehouses etc.
👉 Boom deployment and reeling procedures are made easier for operators thanks to the reel's motorization, and enable faster reaction in the event of an oil spill.
Don't hesitate to contact us - we'll adapt to YOUR needs!
Le 03/01/2024
Sludge dredging and dewatering, France
Le Floch Dépollution also offers sludge treatment services. In December, we intervened in Cleppé (42), France for a sludge dredging and dewatering operation as part of the rehabilitation of a rainwater retention basin.
👉Our TRUXOR amphibious machine was mobilized for the dredging/pumping operation,
👉The sludge was then transferred to our mobile dewatering unit for dewatering.
🙏 We would like to thank COLAS and Vinci Autoroutes for placing their trust in us for these operations.
Le 20/11/2023
Training oil spill response,New-Caledonia
Two of our experts travelled to 🇳🇨 New Caledonia from November 7 to 10, 2023 to carry out theoretical and practical training for the deployment of oil spill response equipment for SLN - Le Nickel personnel.
This equipment, some of which was designed specifically for SLN's needs, was supplied via our local partner Speed Marine :
- 400 m of containment boom
- Boom storage trailers with reel and hydraulic power pack
- Self-supporting tanks
- Trailers with storage box containing skimmers, pumps and hoses
🎯The program of this training included :
📚 Theoretical part with presentation of equipment and response strategies depending on the nature of the pollution,
🛠 A practical session with exercises for containment and recovery of the pollutant along the quay, trawling tests and maneuvering with the boom, as well as pump and boom maintenance.
🙏We would like to thank the SLN teams for their hospitality and motivation throughout this training course.
Le 16/11/2023
Technical assistance, Pointe-Noire, Congo
Our company has been working for several months with the Port Autonome de Pointe-Noire as part of the Technical Assistance to the QSSE Department project. We are collaborating with ANTEA and supervising the part concerning pollution control at sea and on land.
Le 16/10/2023
Pollutec 2023 exhibition, Lyon, France
We are delighted to have taken part in this edition, which was a success for Le Floch Dépollution and in particular for the reverse osmosis water treatment activity! 🙏 Thank you to all our visitors for a very busy week for our team!
Le 05/07/2023
Intervention MT Princess Empress, Philippines
Le Floch Dépollution is proud to have been appointed by The Shipowners' Club to conduct shoreline clean-up operations following the oil spill of the MT Princess Empress in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. Our team was deployed on March 9th, 2023 in Mindoro and Semirara Islands.
Different types of shorelines have been affected (mangroves, rocky and sandy shores) which will require the deployment of specific techniques in which our company is specialized in. These operations represent a logistical challenge as the islands impacted are remote areas with limited access that our team has already experienced in the past.
We thank The Shipowners' Club for their trust by appointing us and ITOPF for recommending us to take on this new challenge and will deploy our best efforts as usual to help the Philippines face this spill.
More information here : https://www.princessempressinformationcentre.com/
Le 11/01/2023
Supply of oil spill equipment, HAROPA Ports
Le Floch Dépollution also supply tailor-made oil spill equipments such as containerized boom reels. We are proud to have supplied 6 systems to the Port of Le Havre, France in December 2022. Those 20’ feet containers include a boom reel hydraulically driven that can store 200 m of MultiPurpose Boom 1500 each.
Le 21/12/2022
Rehabilitation of a landfill on the island of Ouessant
Very nice article on the cleanup operations 🌊♻️ we conducted on the Bouge Pep landfill on the island of #Ouessant this year, an exceptional challenge that our teams were able to meet! 👏👏
Le 21/11/2022
Soil remediation, French Guyana
Last October, we completed one of our operations for the EDF Pariacabo thermal power plant in Kourou. Several operations were carried out there:
♻️ Biological treatment of soils contaminated by hydrocarbons using the biopile technique,
👷♂️Rehabilitation/sealing of the treatment area by combining a geotextile protection and a geomembrane (extrusion weldings).
We also intervened for the Dégrad-des-Cannes plant from 2018 to 2019 for the same problem. Two types of treatment were then carried out:
♻️ Treatment of the least contaminated soils by biopile
👷♂️ Treatment of the most contaminated soils with calcium oxide
This marks the end of our operations for EDF in this beautiful region! 🦜🌴 Mèrsi Lagwiyan 🦎🚀!
Le 14/11/2022
The 9th Regional Conference of the GI WACAF - Accra, Ghana
We are very pleased to have been able to participate in the 9th Regional Conference of the GI WACAF which took place from 7th to 10th November 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The event was a great success and we would like to thank the organizers (Ipieca & International Maritime Organization) for their support in organizing and delivering the workshops and technical demonstrations.
Le 30/07/2022
Le Floch Dépollution Corporate Video 2022
What do you do at Le Floch Dépollution? Many people ask us this question. We think there is no better way than pictures and videos to explain!
Le 04/07/2022
Clean-up operations of local ports, France
Le Floch Dépollution made an intervention during 5 weeks on the ports of Rosmeur, Port Rhu and Tréboul of the city of Douarnenez, France.
In total, 27 tons of waste lying on the seabed of these harbor areas have been collected!!! Among them, a lot of tires, bicycles, chairs, fishing traps and lures, pieces of nets, bottles etc...
The objective of these operations being to avoid the fragmentation of waste into micro particles of plastic and other materials that represent a source of pollution for sediments, water and living resources and thus preserve marine biodiversity.
We thank the Parc Naturel Matin d'Iroise and Office français de la biodiversité for their trust.
Le 09/05/2022
Interspill 2022 Exhibition, Amsterdam
Le Floch Dépollution will attend the Interspill 2022 Exhibition at RAI Amsterdam from 21st to 23rd June. Visit our stand C59!
Le 14/04/2022
Clean-up operations in local ports, France
The Parc Naturel Marin d'Iroise has once again commissioned the company Le Floch Dépollution to collect underwater macro waste, in Lanildut (from March 29 to April 1st, 2022).
These operations allowed us once again to recover more than 3 tons of waste (tires, nets, batteries).
Le 02/12/2021
Review of the shoreline clean-up operations - MV Wakashio oil spill, Mauritius
Take a look at our video of the clean-up operations!
Le 29/10/2021
Supply of oil spill equipment
We recently supplied oil spill equipment intended to equip a foreign pattroller including :
Containerizes hydraulic boom reel with 200 m of fence boom
Containerized dispersant spraying lance system
Le 29/09/2021
Cleaning of a pond, Combrit, France
Our company made an intervention in the Botanical Park of Cornouaille to carry out the cleaning of the pond with our amphibious machine Truxor. We thank the Park for trusting us to carry out this intervention.
Le 09/09/2021
Label "Used by French Armed Forces"
Ou company is honoured to have been awarded the label “used by French armed forces” for the our dispersant spraying system SPK by the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
13/07/2021
Supply of dispersant spraying systems
We thank Total E&P Angola for trusting us again for the supply of 6 complete dispersant spraying systems (ramps, powerpack, hoses etc.).
We offer standard systems but we also provide tailor-made systems to meet to your specific requirements, contact us for more info!
30/06/2021
Clean-up operations in local ports, France
The Parc Naturel Marin d'Iroise has once again commissioned the company Le Floch Dépollution to collect underwater macro waste, in Douarnenez (from June 14 to 18, 2021) and in Le Conquet (from June 21 to 23, 2021) .
These operations allowed us once again to recover a lot of waste (tires, nets, batteries). At the port of Rosmeur in Douarnenez, our team made an unusual discovery: an 8m torpedo containing 350 kg of explosives!
16/03/2021
Wakashio - Mauritius 2020/2021
The grounding of the bulk carrier MV Wakashio in july 2020, which spilled more than 1 000 tons of oil, highly impacted the south-east mauritian shoreline.
An unprecedented disaster impacting a region characterized by its diversity and significant ecological wealth (coral reefs, mangroves, endemic species, etc.)...