WEATHER If the 8.62 meters of the great flood of 1910 should not be affected , police headquarters and the municipality of Paris remain on the alert …
the city of Paris is beaten by the rain but she sink? After the bad weather of recent days, the level of the Seine reached 4.30 meters Austerlitz reference point and should rise on Thursday beyond 5 meters or 5.70 meters by Friday, according to
the Schapi (Central Service for Hydrometeorology and Support to Flood Forecasting). A threshold yet below the reference
the great flood of 1910: 8.62 meters. But still mobilizing Ile facing water authorities continue to rise
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Red phone, watch and record rain
The flood forecasting service has indeed activated the vigilance level “red” in Seine et Marne – where the city of Nemours under the water was evacuated – and “yellow” in the capital “that means there is a risk of flood or rapid rise water not causing significant damage but requiring special vigilance in the case of seasonal activities or exposed ”
indicates the City. A hotline between the prefecture and the city of Paris has been set up.
For their part, the services of the Directorate of Roads and displacements process them, the closures pedestrian banks of the left bank, while the river Brigade continued its verification marauding. An uncommon feature for a situation deemed “exceptional” by forecasters.
The rains in recent days France is an “episode quite exceptional” occurring “on average every 100 years” said Francois Jobard, forecaster at Météo-France, which announces new weather Thursday. What about in Paris? “The character is also outstanding for the capital. He fell the equivalent of three months of rain in thirty days and the rain record for the month of May in Paris was beaten, “says Katia Conte, another forecaster at Meteo France, adding that” we are never to shelter of a more virulent phenomenon. ” The risk of a hundred-year flood in the capital there is then imminent
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“We are far from the hundred-year flood”
“We are far from the hundred-year flood in 1910″ reassures with 20 Minutes Bruno Janet,
Head of modeling pole for Vigicrues network. “The conditions for such a situation are not met and happily. In fact, it would have all the rivers that flow into the Seine are most active. And here it is not the case because only the Loing is really agitated, “he said.
If the flood of 2010 (3.92 meters) has already been beaten, we must go back to March 2001 to revive a flood of this size. The Seine, the scale of Austerlitz, had reached 5.21 m. In 1982, the water reached even the thighs of the Zouave (6.15 meters). But this time, the situation should improve.
“The precipitation forecast on Thursday will further increase the water level but the flood peak would be reached Friday,” says Does however -it without giving a date for the decline. “Note, however, that the soils are wet and are readily react courses. We will continue to monitor closely, “he concludes. Even watchword within the City of Paris
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“We will not take other measures having an impact on the lives of Parisians”
“We are in relationship hourly with the state services’, states Colombe Brossel, Assistant to the Mayor of Paris in charge of security, prevention of urban policy and integration. “Until then we took two operational measures: the closure of the river banks and the establishment of marauding for the poorest people. But even at 5.70 meters, we will not take further action with consequences on the lives of Parisians, “she said.
In September 2015 and March 2016, the city of Paris participated in two exceptional flood simulation exercises. The latter disaster scenario involved a daily sea level rise of 50 cm to finish at over 8 meters. What cope with rising sea levels, according Colombe Brossel. “We have made great progress in terms of operational decision-making and management of local solutions,” she said, before returning to the current situation: “We remain vigilant”
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