Communauté de communes du Pays d'Olima et du Val d'Avière
The Communauté de communes du Pays d'Olima et du Val d'Avière was a communal union of eleven municipalities in the geographical center of the Vosges department in Lorraine .
The municipal association had 12,009 inhabitants (2007) on 103.51 km², which corresponded to a population density of 116 inhabitants / km². The seat of the association was the municipality of Les Forges .
The name of the association indicates the geographical location of the four original members in the area around the Moselle tributary Ruisseau d'Olima and the Avière valley . The expansion of the association of municipalities reached from the western city limits of Épinal to over the North Sea-Mediterranean watershed . Tourist attractions in the area are the Canal des Vosges and the Bouzey reservoir .
The municipal association was created on December 31, 1997 from the four municipalities of Les Forges, Chantraine, Sanchey and Domèvre-sur-Avière. On December 11, 1998, the Renauvoid parish was added, followed by the Chaumousey parish on January 1, 2004. The association was completed on January 1, 2005 with the five municipalities of Fomerey, Darnieulles, Uxegney, Dommartin-aux-Bois and Girancourt. On January 1, 2012, the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Olima et du Val d'Avière became part of the new communal association Agglomération d'Épinal , and the municipality of Dommartin-aux-Bois switched to the Secteur de Dompaire .