The natural park of the Télhuet
The national commitee awarded " 4 flowers " to Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon.
The town owns 90 hectares of parks with 90 000 flowers in summers and 50 000 in winter.
The archeologic site of La fontaine Saint-Denis
Recently restored, these ruins offer a splendid view on the whole park.
The site is open to the public during the day.
These remains can be regerded as a reference because they have been compltely and carrefully dug and protected. They belong to a large fortified wall from the Middle Ageswich was an important property of the Earls of Evreux in the XI and XIIth centuries, the castle had been built on a Neolithic site.
Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon in numbers
Population : 8,400 inhabitants (last census in 2012)
Working population : 3,623
Area : about 1800 hectares, divided in three nearly equal parts : industrial area, urban area and green area
Altitude : from 4 metres to 129, from the banks of the Seine to the top
Post code : 76330
CVS : association of towns.
Port-Jérôme, the history of the site - A long experience
The first industrial setting up in Port-Jérome dates back to 1933.
The two rafineries Esso and Mobil are the first ones in the area. They are deliberatly burnt down in 1940, and then rebuilt after the war.
Towards the last years of the fifties the development of petrochemistry, thanks to the raw materials from the rafineries, leads to the establishment of the plants which make today's industrial site of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon / Lillebonne.
The industrial area in the local economy
The plants on the site employ directly 4 000 people. You can easily double this figure with the indirect jobs. They produce every year more than 11 millions tons of products and export all over the world. They play a large part every year in the local economy with 153 millions euros of salaries and expenses, 107 millions euros of investments, 23 millions euros of local taxes.
From oil and petrochemistry to consummers
The main products made on the site are the following :
Petroleum : gas, gasolines, distillates, lubes-oil, asphalt
Liquefield petroleum gas
Chemical products : bases from crude oil partially transformed on the side
PolymeresCarbon black for tyres
- Plastics : polyethylene and polypropylene
- Synthetic resins
- Latex and rubber
Acetaldehgde and Glyoxylic acid, pharmacy, cosmetology
Solvents and alcohols
Additives for lubes
The products are transported by pipelines, road, rail or ships.
All these cover a range of oil, products used by economy and chemicals which in thirty years contributed to progresse in everyday life in fields like home, agriculture, transports, packaging, hygiene and health.