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- Romain Tramoy, Laurent Colasse, Johnny Gasperi, Bruno Tassin
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- , 2025, pp.111735. ⟨10.1016/j.dib.2025.111735⟩
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- La persistance des champs d’épandage d’eaux usées de l’agglomération parisienne au cours du second XXe siècle
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- Etienne Dufour
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- , 2025, ⟨10.56698/metropolitiques.2174⟩
presentation of the research program EGOUT: "Extended Geochemical Observation of Urban Trajectories"
published on , updated on
Years: 2022 - 2025
Name: Extended Geochemical Observation of Urban Trajectories
Acronym: EGOUT

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Summary
Nutrition, health, well-being… How can we get policy relevant and multi-thematic information on the typology and evolution of urban systems? Polls, surveys, census and… sewers!
Inspired by latests developments in Sewage Chemical-Information Mining, and consolidated by our recent successes, the EGOUT project aims at developing an objective, reactive and integrated observatory of the evolution of Paris by monitoring a large array of geochemical indicators and confront them to socio-economic metrics. We will produce maps of geochemical heterogeneities that will be analysed in the light of socio-economic. We will monitor the evolution of selected indicators to track socio-economic trajectories. Citizens, public policymakers and practitioner’s involvement will be ensured through a co-design and a participatory research action process.
Goal
Develop an observatory of practices of the Paris population based on the geochemistry of matters transported and accumulated in sewer networks.
Methodology
WP1: Spatial distribution and definition of new indicators
- Reference state
- Map of geochemical inequalities
- Comparison to socio-economical maps
- Definition of new indicators of the urban metabolism
- Determine weaknesses
- Urban planning tools
WP2: Interventional research with citizens
- Implication of citizens
- Evaluation of involvement, actors, levers of commitment
- Better understanding of the dynamics of matters
WP3: Temporal trajectories
- Geochemical trends in urban waters
- Retro-observation on sediments accumulated in sewers
- Warning systems
- Socio-environmental control acting on matter fluxes