Madine (river)
The Madine , is a French river which runs in the Lorraine departments of the Meuse and of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It is an affluent of the Rupt de Mad out of left bank, and thus a tributary of a tributary of the the Moselle.
Geography
Madine runs in the area of the Woëvre. It is born in an wooded area (forest of Gobessart), located at the east of the small town of Varnéville, within the Regional natural park of Lorraine. It moves from the start towards the North-East, direction which it will maintain about without meanders to its confluence with Rupt de Mad on the level of the locality of Bouillonville.
Important retained water was arranged on Madine with the beginning of the year 1970. This one, intended to feed the town of Metz, gave rise to the Lac of Madine, become the widest lake of Lorraine. This lake is an important relaxation and tourist center. It lodges also a remarkable avian fauna, in particular of migratory birds.
See also: Lake Madine
Common crossings
Madine bathes the following communes:
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department of the Meuse: Varnéville, Montsec, Buxières-under-the-Coasts, Richecourt and Nonsard-Lamarche
- Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle: Breakdowns and Bouillonville.
Hydrology
The average interannual flow or module of Madine, with the confluence of Rupt de Mad is worth 1,01 m ³ a second for a catchment area of 107,1 km ². The Lame of water past in the basin of 297 millimetres, which is rather abundant, but is moderated for Lorraine, a little lower than that of the average of France, all confused basins, but rather largely lower than that of the average of the French basin of the Moselle (445 millimetres with Hauconcourt, downstream from Metz). Its specific Flow or Qsp is assembled at 9,43 liters a second and per square kilometer of basin.
References
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