"The water has risen at a speed, it's incredible!"
“There is a lack of evacuation of certain watercourses which are not maintained!
»In Marmande, while the slow decline of the Garonne begins, the affected inhabitants clean their houses, not without wondering about the state of the drainage ditches, responsible, according to them, for the rapid and intense flood of the last few days. .
In Marmande, the Garonne peaked at 10.20 m overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, a water level that had not been reached for 40 years and the two bridges over the river remain closed.
"I have lost everything, I have nothing left", confirms Michel Blanchard, a broom in hand and boots on his feet in his flooded garage.
According to the prefecture, the Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have carried out 305 interventions (securing property, trees on the road, reconnaissance, rescues) since the start of the meteorological event "Justine" on the night from Friday to Saturday and the floods that followed.