Neighborhood Treatment

SENTRI*TECH references

Many local authorities have called on our services. Cities such as Bourges, Rezé, Cachan, L'Isle sur Tarn, Paris just to name a few... From a simple informative role to taking complete charge of an intervention program, our activities in these municipalities are diverse. They all lead to "in depth treatments" without postponing the problem or having it spread into neighboring areas, while ensuring respect for the environment.

Paris City Hall

Department of Social Action, Children and Health
Municipal Service of Sanitation and Hygiene - Anti-Termite Struggle Section

• Period of intervention in the fight against termites: since 1953
  
• Size of the intervention: all 20 Parisian arrondissements
  
• History and current state of affairs: the service was created in 1952 at the request of prefectoral authorities. Its original mission, and until 1989, was to seek out and treat termite-infested buildings. The size of treatments and changes in the products used in combat lead us to abandon treatments at the beginning of the 1990s. Detection was intensified. It is performed at the request of building owners or at our own initiative. Moreover, in 1997 ane 1998, it was extended to the administrative buildings of the city. As of December 31, 1998, 14 Parisian arrondissements were infested by termites, or 26 neighborhoods out of 80, in other words 1464 buildings with termites out of 9295 visits.

Isle sur Tarn Town Hall (81)

• Period of work combating termites: March 2000 - October 2001
  
• Extent of work: public place of 6,000 m2 with vaulted arcades and paved floors.
  
• History and current state of repair: In 1998, the town hall asked Sentri*Tech to make an initial assessment of all of the houses in the municipality. Of the 7 ha found to be termite-infested, the decision was made to first treat the main square, the Place Saissac. The preparatory phase took place from March to June 2000, while the treatment phase was launched from the summer of 2000, one month after the installation. From the month of October 2001, no further termite activity could be detected. From November 2001, in view of the results, the Place Saissac in Isle sur Tarn entered the monitoring phase. As the Sentri*Tech process was functioning to the satisfaction of all, it was decided, with the council's agreement, that a public information meeting would be organised through the media. The aim of this meeting was to present the functioning of the Sentri*Tech process on site and to give a precise report on the progress of the project. There are currently several projects underway. The Tarn region is one of the pilot departments chosen by the government and grants are available when anti-termite treatment is required.

Cachan City Hall

Department of Commune Service in Hygiene and Health

• Period of intervention in the fight against termites: since 1997
  
• Size of the intervention: approximately twenty houses visited
  
• History and current state of affairs: in all, 4 properties were revealed to be infested in 1997. Working in collaboration with municipal authorities and local residents, 79 work stations were installed on thirteen different grounds. In 1998, connection of 8 stations and discovery of elimination of termite colonies. In 1999, surveillance continues.

Bourges City Hall

Department of Technical Services - Commune Service for Hygiene and Health

• Period of intervention in the fight against termites: since March 1998
  
• Size of the intervention: the Butte d'Archelet, an infected perimeter of 3 hectares, clearly bordered by major traffic routes
  
• History and current state of affairs: working in collaboration with the CNRS scientific research center, the city started applying the SENTRI*TECH method experimentally starting in 1995. In 1997, convinced by the results, the municipal authorities voted for a budget to finance the work needed to eradicate termites. In order to create a security zone around the infested neighborhood, a 5 hectare perimeter containing 90 properties was successfully treated by an Authorized Applier. The contract was set for 5 years, and in Spring 2000, the conclusions of the experts were already very telling: the colonies infesting the neighborhood had been eliminated.

Rezé Town Hall (44)

• Period of intervention in the fight against termites: April 1997 - June 1999
  
• Size of the intervention: 5 properties in Pont-Rousseau
  
• History and current state of affairs: a diagnosis was performed to determine the limits of the infested zone, then the contaminated homes were successfully treated with the SENTRI*TECH method. Surveillance measures were then put in place: visits made by an Authorized Applier 2-3 times per year.