With the heavy rainfall in recent days, Aveyron, Gimone, Arrats, Tarn and even Séoune continued to overflow on Tuesday 2 February. In Tarn-et-Garonne, a school was evacuated to Lizac. The banks of the Tarn at Montauban and Moissac are flooded. Several roads along the Tarn and Aveyron have also been cut off to traffic. The decline has not yet started.
Storm Justine caused extensive damage in Tarn-et-Garonne. From Monday 1is February, some villages in the east of the department are under water. This is particularly the case for Varen, Laguépie or a little further downstream from Lamothe-Capdeville, north of Montauban. During the night, the waters of the Tarn and Aveyron have continued to rise.
A school evacuated in Lizac
Tuesday February 2, the school of Lizac had to be closed by the mayor Bernard Garguy. The town, which is located about ten kilometers from Moissac, is indeed threatened by the waters of the Tarn, yet only yellow vigilance in the area. “We have joined the parents so that they come to pick up their 43 children at noon”, confirms the first city councilor. The latter is also worried about the fate of its administered inhabitants near the tributary of the Garonne. “This concerns about fifteen houses that we are going to visit to offer them to be evacuated”, he informs. From the evening of 1is February, the road to Sainte-Livrade experienced a landslide. “Agents from the Departmental Equipment Directorate (DDE) evacuated trees that fell on the road during the day, but the Maupas hill did not hold up”, adds Bernard Garguy.
Lizac schoolchildren leave their establishment at midday.
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Aveyron overflows from Lamothe-Capdeville to Saula
North of Montauban, Aveyron, placed in orange vigilance, continues to rise at midday of February 2. Vigicrues announces at 12 o’clock a height of 6.97 meters at Loubéjac station. That is, a height comparable to that of the flood of February 5, 2003. Throughout the sector, the river has risen from its bed. Clearly, from Lamothe-Capdeville to Saula, at the foot of Lafrançaise, via Loubéjac and Piquecos, the river overflows. And the decline has not yet started.
Between Lamothe-Capdeville and Piquecos, the Aveyron flooded the surrounding fields.
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In Montauban, the protective doors closed
In the city of Ingres, the night was also agitated. The Tarn, again, got out of bed on the evening of Monday 1is February. “We had a very rapid, very abrupt climb, confirms Daniel Singla, the director of the Grand Montauban road network. All the necessary first level measures have been taken.” The car parks along the river, under the Pont-Vieux and the Pont-Neuf, were evacuated at 10:30 p.m. Municipal tow trucks were mobilized to remove the vehicles that were parked. The protective gates of rue des Bains and rue du Tescou were closed. The roads on the banks have been closed to traffic. “We also warned the population of the situation by a messaging system this Monday evening around 10 pm”, adds Mr. Singla.
The Berges du Tarn car park in Montauban had to be evacuated, as vehicles were still parked during the night of February 1 to 2.
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On the morning of February 2, around 7 a.m., the option was taken to reopen the banks of the Tarn to traffic with water that had not yet returned to its bed. “The car park located closest to the Tarn, under the Ingres-Bourdelle museum, remains closed,” says Mr. Singla. The protective gates on rue des Bains were once again closed as a precaution. On the Villebourbon side, left bank of the Tarn, precautionary measures were also taken, the water being threatening. “The slack should last a while before a slow decline, because the watersheds have reacted strongly, they are very much in charge”, predicts the director of the urban service.
In Moissac, the hotel du Moulin with its feet in the water
1is February in Moissac, the Tarn which skimmed the banks below 4 meters, was still far from its alert level. The upstream influx of water eventually arrived overnight, causing the Garonne tributary to rise to 5.25 m at 11 a.m. on February 2. Either fifty-one centimeters from the 2003 peak established at 5.73 m. In the early morning of February 2, the town hall had to close the axes below the Napoleon Bridge upstream as well as those downstream to go to the municipal campsite of Bidounet. As always in such a case, the hotel – restaurant of the Moulin de Moissac found its feet in the water without the situation being alarming at that moment.
The Berges du Tarn in Moissac are unmentioned.
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On the D 72, in the direction of the intercommunal aerodrome, the firefighters however had to intervene with the aid of the boat to secure four people and a dog. On the same road which runs along the Cacor bridge, a team of sappers from Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave also recovered from a boat a Moissagais who had to be dialyzed, the ambulances being unable to get there.
In the city center, a diversion was put in place, Montébello Street being flooded.
La Garonne at 2014 level in Lamagistère
Downstream from all these rivers, the situation is also worrying in Lamagistère, in the extreme west of Tarn-et-Garonne, on the border with Lot-et-Garonne. At 12 noon on February 2, the Vigicrues services announced a height of 7.22 meters for the Garonne, also in orange vigilance. And according to their forecasts, the rising waters were not over. Forecasts even predict an average maximum potential height of 7.52 meters, exceeding the 7.32 meters of the January 26, 2014 flood. We are, in this sector, for the moment still far from the 8 meters and more recorded during the flood. flood of 2003.
In Beaumont-de-Lomagne, the Gimone in orange
In the south-west of Tarn-et-Garonne, the Gimone is placed in orange vigilance by MétéoFrance for floods. The level of the river has not stopped rising since February 1. At 12:45 on Tuesday February 2, the water reached 3.48 meters, or about ten centimeters less than the 2014 reference. According to central forecasts of Vigicrues, the stream should not exceed 3.50 meters in the water. ‘afternoon.
Roads cut Tuesday February 2
In Caussade, the rue de l’Abreuvoir closed to traffic, Monday.
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The gendarmerie made a progress report Tuesday, February 2 in the morning on the roads blocked because of the rising waters:
the RD 90 in Caussade, for flooding of the Lère. In the cbetween town, rue de l’Abreuvoir and chemin de la Piboulette are closed to traffic;
on the RD 959 at L’Honor-de-Cos, the axis between Montauban and Loubéjac is cut;
the RD 958, between Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val and Feneyrols. In the city center of Saint-Antonin, deviations are also put in place with the flooding of the Place de Bessarel;
the RD 7 cut at the bend “des Cadurques”, on the axis between Lacour and Bourg-de-Visa;
the RD 113 in Maubec, for flooding of the Gimone;
the RD 25 and 88 in Gramont; the RD 3 and 88 at Mansonville, for the Arrats flood;
the RD 927 and RD 45 at Lafrançaise, for flooding of the Aveyron;
the RD 78 at Lamothe Capdeville;
the RD 66 and 65 bis in Albias;
the RD 97 in Caylus for the Bonette flood;
the RD 115 bis at Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, for the Bonette and Aveyron floods;
the RD 74 in Saint-Clair, for flooding of the Barguelonne;
the RD 57 at Saint-Paul-d’Espis, for flooding of the Barguelonne;
the RD 43 at Miramont-De-Quercy and Montbarla, for flooding of the Barguelonne;
the RD 60 at Touffailles, for flooding of the Séoune;
the RD 953, at the exit of Valence towards the motorway, at the level of the Moudou bridge;
the RD 109 at Vazerac, for flooding of the Lupte;
the RD 72 at Moissac, for flooding of the Tarn;
the RD 64 in Bioule, for flooding of the Aveyron.
Partial deviations have been put in place.
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