Nice
"Catastrophic."
Deputy Director of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) Paca-Corse, Concha Agero has no other word to describe the situation in the South-East, which combines
"poor snow cover, absence of rain and high heat”.
All departments are affected, including those relatively spared so far.
In office since 2008 in the Alpes-Maritimes, René Bonvallat, deputy head of service at the OFB, has never experienced such a situation.
During the last low-water check, on July 25 and 26, the official counted fifteen watercourses in dry conditions out of the forty checkpoints in the maralpine territory.
For the other rivers, the situation is precarious: one no longer has a visible flow and thirteen have a weak one.
Only eleven stations have an acceptable flow.
Departmental Director of the Territories and the Sea of the Alpes-Maritimes, Pascal Jobert found no trace in the archives of a precedent, the nearby mountains having…
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