The Paris took a river in Seine River after a century

The cry of “warm!” They appeared on the other side of the seine on Saturday morning as the Paris took the flow to the river for the first time for more than 100 years.

The French Capital Waterway is closed to swim since 1923, without distinct, due to pollution and the risks caused by the RIVE Go.

After $ 1.5 billion Cleasup Project tied to Olympics last yearOfficials say the seine meets the European water quality levels in many days.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who already took a dip last yearHe was on Saturday morning, holding a physical bottle filled with a river water as a self-reliability show. Environmental authorities are guaranteed Bacterium levels were below the official limit.

“The childhood dream that people are swimming in seine,” he said, according to AFP.

Community swimming is allowed in designated areas of seine, including two newly constructed stairs near the Eiffel Tower and île saint-louis in central Paris. Before sunrise, the Municipal police officer is very good for the last few dots in Algae for fish. Shortly thereafter, the towels were built, towels, waiting for the opportunity to reach.

Woos also cry with excitement recorded across the river where first shields get into the green in the Emerald-green.

Always swimmed was wearing a bright yellow lifebuoy lying on the waist, part of strong safety measures forced by two guards living in good looking ideas. Currently it was weak, just enough to digest well on their legs – the reminder that this was a living river, in urban.

“It is best to swim in the heart of the city, especially at high temperatures we have recently,” said Amine Hoconi, a 25-year-old Pis. “It’s amazing because I thought it would cool and in fact, it’s more warmer than I thought.”

Taking a DIP without designated areas are blocked for security reasons.

From the deck, visitors and the morning joggers stopped. Some applauded as swimmers increased to the stairs, grinning and pull. Others, like François Fournier, they stay in doubt.

“I will not be able to risk,” said Thursday, who lives in Aropbanks and saw the scene from the upper bridge. “I’ve seen things you can’t think floating in Sustain, so I will expect that they are really clean.”

The floating debris is still tied here and there – a lost leaf, plastic wrap – but there is not a solid odor of water transportation, the aroma of the earth, the river smell, such as the river.

“This is chic, swimming in seine, near île Saint-Louis,” said Lucile Woodard, 43, a resident. “There are some recognition, whenever you go to swim elsewhere, but I think this is one of the world’s most tested areas now.”

You added with laughter: “My skin is right.”

The promise of a swimming swimming swimming in 1988, then-then – the Mayor of Paris and the future President, Jacques Chirac, first encouraged their return.

“One of my accounts, and Paris’s Mayor, dreams of seine when everyone can swim,” President Emmanuel Macron, explaining the result of a “proud” of France.

Reference The temperature levels record Making Europe, including the second French June as records begins in 1900, administrators claimed that they expect the Paris to embrace refreshing swimming relief. Swimming areas will be open until August 31.

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