Channel of Alaric

The Channel of Alaric , is a small channel of unballasting of the Adour in the Hautes-Pyrénées, circumventing Tarbes by the east.

Etymology

It owes its name to the king Visigoth Alaric.

Geography

The channel is collected on Right Bank of Adour, with the Threshold of Alaric with Pouzac. It is dimensioned to run out a maximum flow of 6000  l/s is 30% of the flow of Adour to collecting. Its course, parallel with that of Adour, circumvents the agglomeration tarbaise by the east.

It borrows the bed of the Estéous on a few kilometers from the north of Rabastens-with-Bigorre then takes again its course towards north. After a course of 17  km in the Department of Gers, it joined the channel of the mills. This one, a 12 km length, is fed by Adour on the level of the stopping of Charrutot (where the flow reserved for Adour is of 3000  l/s). Their junction constitutes a " joint base " of 1620  m with a right of water fixed at 2100  l/s to the divider of Belloc where separate:

  • the channel of Cassagnac (1500 l/s on the level of the Divider of Belloc), which joined the Arros with Plaisance of Gers after a course of 6,2  km,
  • the channel of the Reds or channel of the Mills (600 l/s), which joined the Arros on the commune of Izotges little before its junction in Adour.

Departments and crossed communes

Principal affluents

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