“The rivers return to their channels” in Eure-et-Loir, with a “gradual return to normality”stated the prefect of the department, Hervé Jonathan, on Friday, October 11. However, the water continues to rise in certain sectors of the territory, still on red alert for flooding by Météo-France, where almost half of the municipalities were affected by flooding, following the Kirk depression.
“The point of surveillance, of attention today, is the Loir upstream, between the municipality of Bonneval and the municipality of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir”EITHER “The flood peak has not yet been reached”Jonathan continued during a press conference. In Châteaudun and Cloyes, the rise in water level should reach its maximum level around 2 p.m., according to a situation report from the prefecture.
In Bonneval, however, where the rain has stopped, it is time to clean up after the water went down last night, said an Agence France-Presse journalist present at the scene. Several streets in the center, along the Loir, are once again open to traffic. The firefighters carried out “840 interventions and they welcomed 230 people”Mr. Jonathan reported.
Almost two out of five municipalities affected, in Eure-et-Loir
“The oldest, the services that have memory, the mayors tell me that it has been 60 or 40 years since we have seen this”the prefect explained. “Of the 365 municipalities in the department, about 40% have been affected, more or less unequally”. “It was both the intensity and size of the floods that effectively constituted an element of surprise”continue.
Seine and Marne remains on red alert for flooding, after the Grand Morin, a tributary of the Marne, left its course, flooding in particular the municipalities of Pommeuse and Coulommiers. Three departments remain on orange alert for flooding on Friday morning: Loir-et-Cher, Sarthe and Aisne. Orne is no longer worried.
The manager of the electricity distribution network, Enedis, for its part, reported that on Friday morning there were still 9,000 customers without electricity, especially in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques (5,200) and the Doubs (1,500). At the end of September, the wettest in 25 years, average annual rainfall totals have already been exceeded almost everywhere in mainland France.
