Vouge (river)
See also: Vouge
The Vouge is a French Rivière a 33 kilometers length whose course is entirely located in the department of the Coast-with Or and who throws himself in the the Saone.
Geography
It approximately takes its source to 250 m of altitude, beside the village of VOUGEOT which it crosses then.
Its course passes then by the communes of Chambolle-Musigny, of Gilly-lès-Cîteaux, Flagey-Echézeaux, Saint-Bernard, Villebichot and Saint-Nicolas-the-Cîteaux. With the abbey of Cîteaux, it receives water of the Sansfond.
At the end of the course, it is used as limit between the communes of Izeure, Brazey-in-Plain and Saint-Use for left bank, of Bessey-lès-Cîteaux, Aubigny-in-Plain, Magny-lès-Aubigny and Esbarres for Right Bank.
It is thrown in the the Saone (Right Bank) to 178 m of altitude.
Affluents
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Saviot
- Bornue
- the Line of the bridge
- Brook of Bonnot
- Brook of Black-Potte the
- the Sansfond
- the Varaude
- the Brook of the bottom of Bessey
- Mornay
- the Biètre
Hydrology
Vouge is a Burgundian river rather not very abundant, definitely less provided than the average of the rivers of the plain of the Saone. Its flow was observed during one 16 years period (1992-2007), with Aubigny-in-Plain, locality of the department of the Coast-with Or located little before its confluence with the the Saone. The catchment area of the river is there of 304 km ² (either almost the totality of this one which extends on 320 km ²).
The interannual medium flow or module of the river with Aubigny-in-Plain is of 2,03 m ³ a second.
Vouge present of the seasonal fluctuations of flow extremely marked, as very often in the east of France. The high waters are held in winter and are characterized by average monthly flows going from 3,04 to 4,27 m ³ a second, from December to March included (with a maximum very Net in January). Of the beginning of April, the flow drops quickly to the low waters of summer which take place from July to September included, involving a fall of the average monthly flow up to 0,321 m ³ in August. But these monthly averages are only averages and occult fluctuations much more marked over short periods or according to the years.
With the low water levels, the VCN3 can fall until 0,100 m ³ a second what is somewhat severe, but this fact is frequent among the rivers of the area (see note).
As for the risings, they can be rather important, at least taking into account the exiguity of its basin. The QIX 2 and QIX 5 are worth respectively 20 and 27 m ³. The QIX 10 or calculated flow of decennial rising is of 32 m ³ a second, the QIX 20 of 36 m ³, while the QIX 50 was not calculated fault of duration of sufficient observation to determine it validly (see note).
The recorded maximum instantaneous flow with Aubigny-in-Plain was of 45,1 m ³ a second on March 14th, 2001, while the value maximum day laborer was of 39,1 m ³ a second the same day. By comparing the first of these two figures with the scale of the QIX exposed higher, one from of deduced that this rising was much more important than the vicennial rising calculated by the QIX 20, and thus of relatively weak frequency, even exceptional.
Vouge is a not very abundant river in the context of the basin of the Saone. The Lame of water past in its catchment area is of 211 millimetres annually, which is much lower than the overall average of France, but still much lower than the average of the basin of the the Saone (501 millimetres in Lyon). The specific Débit (or Qsp) is assembled thus at 6,7 liters a second and per square kilometer of basin.
History