During the night from Saturday to Sunday, rain continued to fall in Haute-Vienne. In some municipalities, 30 to 50 millimeters of rain fell, up to 60 millimeters locally.
In La Jonchère-Saint-Maurice, in the north-east of the department, 48.3 mm fell in just 24 hours according to data collected by Météociel.
As a result, in certain municipalities, watercourses are overflowing. Under the Pierre à Bellac bridge, the Vincou overflowed even under the picnic tables located nearby. In the afternoon, the Vincou flooded departmental road 7 linking the municipalities of Thouron to Buis.
In Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire, west of Haute-Vienne, the Tardoire, placed on yellow alert, displayed, at its highest, in the morning a threshold of 45 centimeters above normal. According to the government website Vigicrues, on soils already saturated with water, the current heavy rains and those announced for the next 24 hours are causing the levels of the section’s watercourses to react upwards. The flood is moderate.
For the Gartempe, placed on yellow alert, which flows in Haute-Vienne, but also in Creuse, the heavy rains of the previous night combined with the precipitation expected this Sunday are causing the levels of the rivers in the section to rise.
The precipitation also had an impact on the level of the Vienne. The flood is low according to Vigicrues, but overflows can be observed locally.
Like in Aixe-sur-Vienne, where the Aixette rose this Sunday morning to 1.30 meters. Vigicrues predicts a rise in the level of the watercourse which could reach between 1.89 meters and 1.97 meters in the evening. The trend is increasing at the station located in Limoges and the flood peak should be observed upstream of the section in the early evening.
Vigicrues also recorded increases in Vienne which reached 1.65 meters in Eymoutiers, more than one meter in Limoges at the Pont-Neuf station, and 1.42 meters in Saint-Priest-Taurion. The Taurion River, a tributary of the Vienne, also saw its level rise to 1.34 meters at its highest this Sunday morning.
In Condat-sur-Vienne, the Briance reached 2.82 meters shortly before 10 a.m. this Sunday, before falling again at 1 p.m. to 2.65 meters. In Roziers-Saint-Georges, it is the Combade which saw its level rise to more than one meter, just like the Maulde near Peyrat-le-Château (1.62 meters).
In Saint-Hilaire-Bonneval, the road was flooded by the Roselle under the bridge which bears its name.
Corrèze: around fifteen interventions by firefighters during the night, a significant risk of flooding
Emilie Montalban
gn france
