A slow decline began on Wednesday February 3 in several departments of the South-West affected by the floods in recent days, such as the Landes, even if areas remained occasionally under threat of water, such as La Réole in Gironde and in the Lot -et-Garonne, passed in red vigilance.
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In Lot-et-Garonne, about fifty roads like the day before, remained closed to traffic on Wednesday, mainly departmental roads on the banks of the Garonne, and peaks were expected in the evening on the river in the areas of Tonneins and Marmande, only the latter motivating a passage in red vigilance, according to the prefecture.
Because the recession started at several points in the department, in particular on the downstream Lot, on the Garonne at Agen, where the peak was reached early Wednesday, and in the south of the department on the Baïse, Gélise and Gers rivers, where the drop in water began on Tuesday.
Since the start of the “
Justine
”
weather phenomenon
in the night from Friday to Saturday, the Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have recorded 203 interventions, but no emergency evacuation in the last 24 hours of people threatened by water, just the "
put away
" preventive, said the firefighters.
Five schools, as on Tuesday, remained closed in small towns in the Marmande-Tonneins sector.
The dikes are generally in "
very good condition
", with a few not abnormal overflows to lockers provided for this purpose, some points under surveillance, but "
no concern due to these overflows
", according to the same source.
Downstream, in the department of Gironde, the levels of the Garonne continued to rise, albeit very slowly: in La Réole, the peak should be reached on Wednesday evening, and could cause "
complex situations, but a priori no evacuation. emergency,
”said Mayor Bruno Marty.
Five people were evacuated Wednesday in anticipation of a district of La Réole, others could be by Thursday, "
but the very slow flood gives us time for anticipation,
" said Marty.
Wednesday morning, about 25 departmental roads and four bridges connecting the banks of the Garonne remained closed, in Langoiran, Cadillac, Castets-en-Dorthe, La Réole.
In the Landes, 37 roads were still cut, or about ten reopened since the day before.
In Tartas, whose lower part was flooded twice in a month, four times in a year, the peak was reached in the morning on the Midouze and a slight decrease was observed, as well as in Dax on the Adour.
Landes firefighters carried out 129 interventions in 48 hours, without seriousness but rescued a person in his vehicle trapped in the water, near Dax.