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The Pyrenees placed in red vigilance for floods and floods: the elected officials "on the war footing"

2022-01-09T18:39:32.274Z


Strong floods and floods are expected this Monday in the rivers descending from the foothills of the Pyrenees. Two departments, the La


Bernard Uthurry is "on the war footing".

Like all the elected officials of the municipalities along the Gave d'Oloron, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the mayor of Oloron-Sainte-Marie is preparing for a new rise in water levels.

The department and that of the Landes have been placed in red vigilance for floods and floods.

The risk is very high.

The first overflows are expected overnight from Sunday to Monday and should continue throughout Monday.

"It has been raining constantly since eleven o'clock this Sunday morning, in the area as well as on the mountainous foothills of the Pyrenees, explains the city councilor, contacted this Sunday evening around 6 pm.

We have just learned that the avalanche warning level 4 has also been activated.

We are therefore on high alert and are monitoring the water level very closely.

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In Oloron-Sainte-Marie, two gaves, that of Ossau and that of Aspe, meet in the heart of the town to form that of Oloron, particularly targeted, this Sunday, by the red alert triggered by Météo France .

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“The gaves have the particularity of being very cashed in, however, underlines Bernard Uthurry, who hopes to see only limited damage.

The major risk is that of tree trunks or stumps carried by water which would strike the foundations of certain buildings.

We have warned the most exposed inhabitants, about fifteen in total, to invite them to spend the night elsewhere than at their home.

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At the origin of this new weather alert (which also concerns, but at an orange level, the departments of Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Ariège, Pyrénées-Orientales and also, to the 'opposite of the country, the North and the Aisne), a disturbance with "a blocking effect on the Adour basin", one explains to Météo France, causing very heavy rainfall, with "local accumulations very high ".

Up to 5.60 m height expected

Consequence: very significant floods were observed during the day of Sunday in the Season and upstream of the Gave d'Oloron, which will generate, according to the forecasts of the Vigicrue alert system, "a major flood downstream" of the river. Gave d'Oloron with "damaging overflows" Monday during the day on the Nive, the Adour-Nive confluence, the Bec du Gave, the Gave de Pau Béarnais and the Adour.

In Oloron-Sainte-Marie, "the maximum height should be reached Monday afternoon and between 4.60 m and 5 m", alert Vigicrue, more than the floods that the town experienced at the beginning of December .

Downstream from the Gave d'Oloron, in the municipalities of Navarrenx and Sauveterre-de-Béarn, the situation is likely to be even more sensitive, as far as the village of Escos, with a maximum height expected this Monday in the upper evening at 5.60 m.

Source: leparis

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