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Marcus

April 18, 2018

No excursion that you must have seen, but if you are near you could make a quick stop there to admire the old architecture.

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Marcus

September 8, 2022

It's impressive what kind of history such an old lock has.

The Canal du Midi opened in 1681, a year after the death of its designer and implementer, Pierre-Paul Riquet. Between its opening and the creation of the Ouvrages du Libron, the Libron regularly overflowed, filling the canal with silt and debris. During periods of flooding, a special barge with flush walls was placed in the canal like a raft with high walls at either end, creating a large walled area that allowed the Libron to flow across the canal without depositing its silt and garbage. [2] Canal traffic could not pass while the barge was in place and had to wait until the tide receded and the barge was removed.

In 1855, the Ouvrages du Libron (Works of Libron) were built to allow better coexistence between the two streams. The engineer Urbain Maguès designed a structure that allowed the Libron to be directed so that a canal boat could pass safely, limiting the mud and debris deposited into the canal by the flooded river. [3]

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The Libron can be either a dry bed or a quiet stream or a stream caused by melting snow and heavy rains. During light volume, the Libron flows through a culvert below the intersection. [4] During times of heavy runoff, the Libron carries significant amounts of silt and vegetation. The surface levels of the two streams are very similar under normal circumstances. This crossing on such narrow plains would not admit of an aqueduct or other usual means of crossing one stream over another.

The Libron riverbed was altered so that the stream split into two channels as it approached the Canal du Midi. The paths crossed the canal through the Ouvrages du Libron, consisting of six "gates" on each side of a "protected area" 30.5 meters long. [1]

At high water, the Libron crosses the Canal du Midi in two bodies. Each body passes through the "works" through six gates that open into six lock bodies. Each lock consists of three wall sections. The river enters the work when the sliding gate is up and is bounded by the stone walls of the "works", then by walls slid over the canal body, and finally by the stone walls on the exit side.

The bed of the Libron was placed near the normal level of the surface of the Canal du Midi at the crossing. The soles of the locks across the canal lie almost on the water surface of the canal.

The work made it possible to stop the river path closest to an approaching boat for a period of time to allow a canal boat to traverse that area and rest for a time in the "protected area" between the two paths. The river path behind the boat would now flow again and the path in front of the boat is stopped. The boat can now cross this second path unhindered. [1]

The Libron River is located in the French department of Hérault in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and flows into the Mediterranean.

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouvrages_du_Libron

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Location: Vias, Béziers, Occitania, France

Ouvrages du Libron sur le Canal du Midi

1. Canal du Midi – Canal du Midi loop from Vias

2. Canal du Midi – Canal du Midi loop from Cap d'Agde

3. Nature Trail by the Wetlands – Canal du Midi loop from Valras-Plage

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