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An growing older Algeco, connected to a inexperienced sheet metallic shed on the sting of Beaumonts Park which overlooks Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis). This is the place town’s gardens and nature service is housed. In a tiny workplace, an outdated map of the city sits alongside household images and an OM scarf. Wearing his orange service vest, Laurent Caranton, group chief, factors out town middle gardens and the brand new areas created with the pedestrianization of sure streets that he takes care of. A day by day lifetime of a municipal gardener within the dense and really populated city setting of Seine-Saint-Denis.

When he arrived in Montreuil, in 2009, after an agricultural BTS and 4 years spent in Plessis-Robinson (Hauts-de-Seine), the municipal worker was shocked by the variety of the inexperienced areas and the curiosity of the inhabitants. The metropolis has 45 hectares of squares, plant beds and avenue edges to take care of and manages Montreau Park – two others, Guilands and Beaumonts, are, respectively, below the duty of the division and the neighborhood of communes. Sixty municipal brokers maintain their upkeep.

Laurent Caranton, 49, is answerable for Square Léopold-Patriarche, which adjoins the city corridor with Art Deco structure. An overcrowded space on the crossroads of main avenues and metro exits. There, we picnic on sunny days, we calm down on the lawns and the youngsters flock to the playground. The backyard is classed as degree one, on the high of a panorama care scale of 5, signifying the eye that the service should give it.

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