Bandiat

Bandiat is a small river of surroundings 70 km length, tributary of the Tardoire, which crosses the departments of High-Vienna, of the Dordogne, and Charente.

Geography

Bandiat takes its source on the southern slope of Puy Chauvet (488 m) to surroundings 440 m of altitude, close to the hamlet Large Puyconnieux (commune of Dournazac in High-Vienna. It runs towards the west, crosses the north of the the Dordogne, leaves the crystalline ground for the calcareous ground with Souffrignac, and loses its water in pits. It is thrown in the Tardoire with Agris in Charente, but only at the time of large the risings, because in normal weather, it does not have any more water with surroundings 5 km of Tardoire, on the level of the locality the Old women Vaures (commune of Agris).

Hydrology

Bandiat is very sensitive to pluviometry. In rainy weather, it goes up quickly to also quickly find its usual level, as of the return of the good weather.

It with the characteristic to narrow more and more while approaching the place where he should join Tardoire. When it passes under the NR 141 close to Saint-Project it is nothing any more but one brook to disappear completely 3 km further in the karstic plate from the Karst of Rochefoucauld. All water disappears in losses and feeds a Résurgence: the Sources of Touvre.

The median flow of Bandiat varies with Feuillade between 0,6 m ³ /s in summer and 6 m ³ /s in winter.

Crossed cities

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