France floods ease as Seine starts to recede

AFP, PARIS: The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris began receding Saturday after reaching its highest level in three decades, easing fears after devastating floods sent the Louvre and other riverside museums scrambing to protect their treasures.
From a peak of 6.10 metres in the early hours of Saturday, the river began to subside, falling to 6.04 metres at 10:00am (0800 GMT), the environment ministry’s Vigicrues flood watch website said.
The record for the Seine is 8.62 metres, reached in 1910.
“We’re now in the stabilisation phase, even if we could still get one or two centimetres more”, said Bruno Janet, head of modelling at Vigicrues.
The city remained on orange flood alert but the threat appeared to have shifted to northeastern France, where threatened storms could cause other rivers to burst their banks, as well as around the northern port of Le Havre where the Seine flows into the sea.

 

France floods ease as Seine starts to recede

AFP, PARIS: The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris began receding Saturday after reaching its highest level in three decades, easing fears after devastating floods sent the Louvre and other riverside museums scrambing to protect their treasures. From a peak of 6.10 metres in the early hours of Saturday, the river began to subside, falling to 6.04 metres at 10:00am (0800 GMT), the environment ministrys Vigicrues flood watch website said. The record for the Seine is 8.62 metres, reached in 1910. Were now in the stabilisation phase, even if we could still get one or two centimetres more, said Bruno Janet, head of modelling at Vigicrues. The city remained on orange flood alert but the threat appeared to have shifted to northeastern France, where threatened storms could cause other rivers to burst their banks, as well as around the northern port of Le Havre where the Seine flows into the sea.