Ourcq

See also: Ourcq (homonymy)

The Ourcq (Urc in 855) is a French Rivière tributary of the Marne out of Right Bank. It takes its source above Fère-in-Tardenois in the department of Aisne. This small river follows a broad valley and joined the Marne, below Lizy-on-Ourcq, after a course of approximately 87 km.

Affluents

  • Brook of the Mill

  • Ru of Half-compartment
  • Ru of the Paradise
  • Brook of Goose Favières
  • Ru
  • Ru of the bridge flaring
  • Ru of Sablionnère
  • Ru of the Shovel
  • Ru Saint-Georges
  • Ru Cowherd
  • Ordrimouille
  • Ru of Nanteuil
  • Ru Garnier
  • Ru of Chaudailly
  • Wadon
  • Ru of Pudeval
  • Ru of the Grill
  • the Savières
  • Ru of Autheuil
  • the Allan
  • the Grivette
  • the Clignon
  • Ru of the Cross Helene
  • Gergogne
  • Ru Jean Racet
  • Ru of Kitten
  • Ru of Méranne

Hydrology

Part of its course is diverted and channeled at the 19th century to become an important waterway supplying Paris: the Channel of Ourcq which becomes the Canal Saint Martin's day while entering Paris.

With Chouy, the average interannual flow or module of Ourcq is of 2,22 m ³ a second, for a surface of basin of 345 km ². The Blade of water or height of past water is of 203 millimetres and thus the specific Débit of this portion of basin is assembled at 6,38 liters a second and per square kilometer of basin.

Literature

Mathieu Bénézet composed a novel entitled Pantin, channel of Ourcq .

Miriam Cendrars evokes in its biography on Blaise Cendrars “strolling along the channel of Ourcq” to the arm of an young woman.

References

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