Dam Michelbach

Description

The dam Michelbach is an artificial water level put in maltreatment in October 1982 located on the round of applause of the commune of the same name in the department of the High Rhine. The interest of this water level is to collect water resulting Doller in order to control it the food of the Ground water from which the Mulhousian agglomeration draws its drinking water.

The capacity of this water level is of 7.200.000 m ³. The dam has a 1305 meters length, a 22.5 meters height and a width at the base of 122.5 meters (10 meters at the top). The way making the turn of the lake that the walkers can borrow makes 4 kilometers.

This water reserve, classified since 1997 in voluntary natural reserve, is a regional natural reserve and remains virgin of any human animation, thus ensuring the peace of the birds. So the reserve of Michelbach became since its creation, with more than 180 species present, one of the most important sites of nesting of wintering in Alsace after the the Rhine. One finds there a majority of ducks mallards, but also regularly of the ducks pintails, shoveler ducks and others teals of winter. The other species present undoubtedly in winter are the Grand cormorant (visible on the large trees close to the dam), the Goosander, for which the site of Michelbach became the extra-Rhenish site of reference, the Red-breasted merganser, the Fuligule pochard, the Foulque and the crested Grèbe.

External bonds

Town of Mulhouse, water in Mulhouse

See too

List of the lakes of France

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