Cleurie (river)

The Cleurie - or the rupt of Cleurie - is a French Rivière of Lorraine, which runs in the department of the the Vosges. It is an affluent out of Right Bank of the Moselotte, therefore a tributary of a tributary of the the Rhine by Moselotte then by the the Moselle.

Geography

Cleurie is born in the Massif from the Vosges, on the territory of the commune of Gérardmer, of the junction of two brooks: the drop of the Corsair and the drop of the Rupt Black. It receives on its line the brook of Liézey , crosses Tholy, skirts the Forging mill, the Trade union and Cleurie, then joined Right Bank of the Moselotte to Saint-Heart.

Its name is found in the denomination of the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Cleurie.

Hydrology

The flow of Cleurie was observed during 38 years (1967-2007), with Cleurie, locality of the department of the the Vosges located at five kilometers of its confluence with the Moselotte (ref.). The catchment area of the river is there of 68 km ², that is to say more or less 88% of the totality of this one.

The interannual medium flow or module of the river with Cleurie is of 2,39 m ³ a second.

Cleurie presents seasonal fluctuations of flow moderate. The high waters are held at the end of the autumn and in winter and are characterized by average monthly flows going from 2,82 to 3,54 m ³ a second, from November to March included (with an in December maximum and January). The low waters take place in summer, from July to September included, with a fall of the monthly medium flow up to 1,02 m ³ in August. But these monthly averages hide more marked fluctuations over short periods, more especially as the flow is variable according to the years.

With the low water levels, the VCN3 can fall until 0,290 m ³, that is to say 290 liters a second, which is hardly very severe (see note).

As for the risings, they can be very important for a small river equipped with an extremely exiguous basin. The QIX 2 and QIX 5, or flows calculated for a biennial and quinquennial rising, are worth respectively 27 and 35 m ³. The QIX 10 or calculated flow of decennial rising is of 41 m ³ a second, the QIX 20 of 47 m ³ and the QIX 50 of 54 m ³ a second. (see note). These figures correspond to more of the third of the flows of believed of Moselotte.

The recorded maximum instantaneous flow with Cleurie throughout this period, was of 51,7 m ³ a second on January 25th, 1995, while the value maximum day laborer was of 33,3 m ³ a second the same day. By comparing these values on a QIX scale exposed higher, one notes that these risings of January 1995 were almost of order cinquantennal, and thus rather exceptional, intended to repeat itself every forty years on average.

On the whole Cleurie is a very abundant river. The Lame of water past in its catchment area is of 1 114 millimetres annually, which is more than three times higher than the overall average of France, and largely higher than the average of the totality of the French basin of the the Moselle (445 millimetres downstream from Metz). The specific Flow (or Qsp) reached of this fact the very high figure of 35,2 liters a second and per square kilometer of basin.

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