Paris Officials Open Austerlitz Water Tank, A Crucial Piece of the Seine River Clean Up Plan

By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
With less than 90 days until the 2024 Olympics, an important piece of organizers’ plans to keep the Seine river quality acceptable has fallen into place. On Thursday, organizers and Paris officials inaugurated the Austerlitz water basin — a tunnel and connected storage tank that can hold 13.2 million gallons of water, the equivalent of about 20 long course pools.
This storage tank has been in progress for three years. It is one of the crucial pieces of o