Le 20/08/2021

Presentation of a conveyor for collection of sargassum

Our company designed a new equipment : the conveyor for the collection of sargassum. A presentation was made on August 5th, 2021 on the beahc Etang Buisson at Saint-François, Guadeloupe.

DEPLOYMENT OF CONTAINMENT/DEFLECTION BOOM

240 m of boom were deployed in the beginning of february near "Anse Champagne" in Saint-François, Guadeloupe. This type of equipment used for sargassum response allow the deflection of sargassum and protect areas near which they are deployed. Sargassum strandings therefore cease once these areas are protected by booms thus making screening operations unnecessary. The aim is to deflect sargassum to a defined collection point where others equipment will be operated.

SCREENING / BEACH CLEANING

Screening/beach cleaning operations were carried out on different locations in Saint-François and Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe :

• Plage du Lagon / La Cocoteraie, Saint-François, the screening/cleaning of this beach was necessary to be able to note the efficiency of the 240m boom deployed near "Anse Champagne". This area being protected from now on by the boom, screening/beach cleaning operations shouldn't be renewed.

• Plage des Raisins Clairs et Etang Buisson, Saint-François. Many operations were executed by our team depending on sargassum arrivals.

• Plage Anse du Belley, Sainte-Anne. 3-days operation of screening/beach cleaning

EXPERIMENTATION COLLECTING/CONVEYOR BELT FOR SARGASSUM

This experimentation tested on a beach between the Residence Savannah and the Nautical Base in Saint-François, was fruitful and enable us to approve this equipment for the collection of fresh sargassum on shoreline areas.

We would like to thank all the visitors who came to visit us on our booth during the Sarg'Expo exhibition which was held in Guadeloupe from 24th to 26th, October and more particularly :

- The Prefet Philippe GUSTIN, Mr le Sous-Préfet Jean-Michel JUMEZ and Gael MAGNE from the Prefecture of Guadeloupe, Mr Président of Région GUADELOUPE Ary CHALUS, Arnaud LE MENTEC and Oriane RAULET from Direction de la Mer of Guadeloupe, Jean-Yves BREHMER from Phares et Balises of Guadeloupe, Nina CUDENNEC and Jérôme ROCH from ADEME, Willy CEI from Cellule PULSAR, Nicolas ROUGIER from DEAL Guadeloupe , the mayor of Saint-François Laurent BERNIER and Mrs Jean-luc EDOM and Jean-Marc MEUNIER for their support on this project ;