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BETWEEN WILD NATURE
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Without the Allier valley, we might easily forget that Lozère is a country of streams, and in its eastern corner flows a river. This river, l'Allier, has its springs in the Moure de la Gardille (1503 m), in the middle of the Mercoire Forest close to Cheylard l'Évêque. After having been joined by local streams (le Langouyrou, l'Espezonnette and le Chapeauroux through le Grandrieu) as well as the waters from Naussac dam mountain lake, it flows through Velay, Auvergne, Bourbonnais and finally, after 410 km downstream, joins la Loire near Nevers.
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On February the sixth 1976 Naussac dam was declared of public utility. The building of this dam, which occasioned numerous protests from ecologists, farmers, antinukes…in 1975/76, started on the first of October 1976 and went on 'til the first of November 1980. It took two years to fill it up, drowning the old village of Naussac. A hundred and fifty persons were moved and several of them found a lodging in the new village where the old church steeple and a tower from the castle had been rebuilt stone after stone. Modern touristic equipments for all water sports (bathing, sailing, windsurfing, angling) are now available on the banks of this small inside sea which is one of the most important reservoirs in massif central.
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Agnès et Christian SIMONET - 48300-Langogne(Cheylard l'Évêque) - LOZÈRE
Write to us - Tél/FAX: 04 66 69 03 21 - GPS: UTM 31T0563791, 4944323 - Alt: 1130m |
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