Red Water

See also: Red Water (homonymy)

The Red Eau is a tributary court of the Amblève, 15 kilometers entirely located on the territory communal of Stavelot and Malmedy. It takes its source around the village of Hockay, with the place known as Chôdires , and joined the Amblève about fifteen kilometers further around the town of Stavelot, with the hamlet of Challes which draws its name from Calla an old name of the river.

The river owes its name with the color rusts many ferruginous carbogazeux suitements, or Pouhon S , which marks out its course. Most known of them is the Pouhon de Bernister .

The valley is of a size much more important than lets it suppose the discharge of river. The high part of the river in fact was collected by another river of the area, the Trôt Marets. The valley also accommodated a time the course of the Warche. The low valley lodges the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps. The red name Eau is given besides to the one of the turns of the circuit.

Viaduct of Red Water

On the level of the Pouhon de Bernister, the valley is crossed by the highway E42. The extreme acidity of water of this marshy valley and the size of the valley required the construction of a work of art of importance, the Viaduc of Red Water (650 meters length, of which a span of 270 meters, 45 meters height).

Red Water, border of states

Under the Roman Empire, it will be the administrative limit between the cities of Tongres - Civitas Tungrorum -, and Cologne - Civitas Agrippinensium . Towards north, this limit will be materialized by the Hoëgne and the Helle.

The river will be also between 1815 and 1920 border between the Netherlands, then the Belgium and the Prussia.

See too

Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps

External bonds

Structurae: Viaduct of Red Water - features of the viaduct of Red Water
Books of the MET - Viaduct of Red Water
Pouhon de Bernister

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