Mystery building, what is it?

[Sans Bateau]

It is just to the west of Cap Sicie near Toulon in the South of France. There is no visible access for any surface craft and there apears to be no road or lift or any other access from the land, it is at the bottom of a high cliff.

It looks like something of a Bond film. Anyone know what it is?

 

[Ariadne]

Nice pad with no neighbours though.

 

[rhumlady]

A Russian billionaires shore side pad?

 

[Sans Bateau]

Yep I reckon something like that, and the builder who built it without a helipad is now part of the concrete!

 

[Johndf1]

Looks like a Russian Billionaires pad but it's actually a water treatment plant - they really know how to build them in France!

See link here
http://laurejo.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/10/11997035.html

 

[misterg]

Is this it ?

Really weird!

Andy

 

[bobgoode]

Don't know what it is but...
Thinderbirds are go!

 

[Sans Bateau]

Looks like a Russian Billionaires pad but it's actually a water treatment plant - they really know how to build them in France!

See link here
http://laurejo.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/10/11997035.html

Excellent that looks like it! A little less glamorous than a Bond set, but the mystery is solved.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Water treatment plant is a bit polite. It's actually a sewage works. Reading on a bit, it takes the waste from seven communities or 350,000 people who produce 80,000 cubic metres of waste every day. To reach the station there's a 1.2km road tunnel which drops 120 metres. 400 people visited last year for its open day. Sewage is pumped to a pre-treatment stage, then filtered, and sand and oils removed. It then goes on to flocculation and decanting before being treated to eliminate organic material. Consequently, what goes into the sea has lost 90% of the suspended material (aka poo). The recovered turds (120 cubic metres a day) are incinerated on site, and the remaining ash is trucked offsite to Nimes to be solidified.

 

[VicS]

There are three kinds of people:
Those who learn by reading.
Those who learn by observation.
Those who have to pee on an electric fence for themselves.

I reckon there must be a fourth. Those who have info about French sewage farms at their finger tips.

Interesting though. Wouldn't mind a visit! Only ever been to one sewage works and that was just a small one on the Kent Sussex border.

 

[TiggerToo]

Looks like a Russian Billionaires pad but it's actually a water treatment plant - they really know how to build them in France!

See link here
http://laurejo.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/10/11997035.html

NONONON

the sewage plant is just the COVER for the base from which Mr No is going to take over the world

 

[Cerddinen]

Dr No is very likely since (in the book) he operated under the cover of a guano plant. The sensitive movie types changed this to a bauxite mine.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Reading the Chichester Harbour thread, looks like we could do with a building like this here!

 

[MM5AHO]

Looks like the Thunderbirds HQ.

 

[jenku]

It's the ugliest thing I've seen in a while. Only hope is that it might be used as target for the navy's shore bombardment exercise. I think I'll just email that suggestion to Sarky....

 

[Twister_Ken]

So what are they gonna do, shell the sh*t out of it?