Canal de Carpentras

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Canal de Carpentras at Cambuisson
Canal de Carpentras near Champeau ( Mérindol )

The Canal de Carpentras is an irrigation structure mainly located in the Vaucluse department ( France ) . For its establishment (1849-1857) its founder and first director, Louis Giraud , was from Napoléon III. appointed Knight of the Legion d'honneur .

The water is absorbed at Mallemort ( Bouches-du-Rhône ) from the Durance . The length of the main canal, which flows into the Aygues at Travaillan , is 69 kilometers. There are also secondary and tertiary canals with a total length of 725 kilometers. The canal network extends over an area of ​​10,600 hectares to be irrigated between Mont Ventoux in the north, the Rhone in the west, the Durance in the south and the mountains of the Vaucluse and the Luberon in the east.

A sum of 4,700,000 gold francs was required for the construction, one third of which was raised by state subsidies and two thirds by the beneficiary farmers.

history

Schematic representation of the planned sewer network

In the centuries before the Canal de Carpentras was built, there were more or less advanced projects to irrigate the region. The first company mergers took place from 1849 and in 1853 the formation of a final association for the construction of the canal. On July 12, 1857, the canal was ceremoniously opened in the presence of Louis Giraud and Empress Eugénie . On September 8, 1860, Napoleon III handed over the during a visit to Orange Louis Giraud received the insignia of the Legion of Honor.

Buildings

literature

  • Robert Caillet: Le Canal de Carpentras. Contribution to the history of the Comtat Venaissin. 1561-1925 . Batailler, Carpentras, 1925
  • Bernard Lambert: Histoire contemporaine du Canal de Carpentras .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b L'incroyable patrimoine de Canal de Carpentras at canaldecarpentras.com (French). ( Memento from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 150 e anniversaire de l'inauguration du Canal de Carpentras ( Memento of December 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at canaldecarpentras.com (French), accessed on August 11, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Les ouvrages d'art ( Memento of October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at canaldecarpentras.com (French), accessed on August 11, 2016
  4. ↑ La station de pompage de l'Euze à Caromb at canaldecarpentras.com (French). ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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