8 plots in red zone
The problem encountered at the Val d’Adzeux subdivision appeared in March 2024, a little to everyone’s surprise. “”Indeed the municipality had invested in this old tourist site which has become an area of resident “explains Luc Delvaux. “”The Val had gone from leisure area to green habitat area. Roads had been taken up by the municipality to install the lighting in particular and to make the alleys bodybuilt. Then in March 2024, we were warned that sudden collapses had been noted in this area, allée des Biches “.
According to local authorities, in fact, proximity to the roads, the small bridge that spans the existing stream at this place and the homes present make the situation worrying … It is for this reason that studies were carried out in March and autumn 2024; A request for complementary soil tests to these studies, carried out in March 2025 as well as boreholes made in June therefore led to a report by the BCG geology expertise (SRL geology consulting office). Its results are particularly disturbing …
According to the latter, it appears that “The area presents the highest level of risk between the 2 collapses observed. Apart from this area, along the alleged underground flow axis, the risk of instability is also present but of less intensity “. It is the karst nature of the sector that makes the place unstable and, unfortunately, several plots are located in this area at risk.
Concretely, there are three areas: a red where 8 plots are located, including 5 private; An orange comprising 7 plots including 5 private and 2 unoccupied and one yellow (42 plots). The occupants of the plots in the red zone must be evacuated definitively. “”We know it’s hard but the report requires it “continues the bourgmestre. As for the occupants of plots in the orange zone, they are strictly forbidden to carry out new constructions … The orange zone that can go red at any time.
Rehousing
A meeting was organized this July 1 between the authorities and the competent services. It turns out that the bourgmestre must take “All the necessary arrangements to ensure the security of any citizen “. A police order will therefore be written as soon as possible, ordering the complete and final evacuation of all the occupants located in the red zone. “”We will offer households concerned support and social, administrative and legal supervision “with an activation of Ourthe Ambrève housing and the social real estate agency.
Additional measures will finally be carried out, such as the prohibition of access to collapse areas as well as the construction of supervisory merlons.
