The bridge was not far from being submerged in this truly beautiful town of Mont-de-Marsan.

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MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP

A recession, which the Landes prefecture predicted "very slow", began this Saturday in the Landes department, locally plagued by historic flood levels, but without victims or any evacuation, since Friday.

The department remained on Sunday in flood orange vigilance, for sections of the Midouze, tributary of the Adour, and the Adour in the Dax sector.

With the saturation of the grounds, the sustained precipitations of the last days, related to the storm Bella generated strong floods there.

The overflows remained significant this Saturday morning, but the levels are no longer increasing and the recession has started, in particular in Dax and Mont-de-Marsan, the Vigicrues site indicated.

But the decline will be slow, and levels should remain high all weekend.

The flood peak was reached everywhere, from Friday at Dax for the Adour, Mont-de-Marsan for the Midouze, then Saturday at 5:00 a.m. for the small town of Tartas on the Midouze, with a peak of 4.02 m, a level never reached since the 19th century, said the prefecture.

370 intervention to date Friday evening

However, no intervention was necessary during the night, and three firefighters' boats remained positioned on the spot, with rescuers in white water, as part of the device, added the prefecture in a press release.

Friday evening, the firefighters of the department had carried out at least 370 interventions related to floods since the beginning of Sunday of the rising water phenomenon, mainly water exhaustion, drying out of cellars, and around thirty evacuations.

The absence of precipitation announced on Saturday should favor the recession, and a depression announced on Sunday, with showers on the coast and then more moderate inland, should not have an impact on the current recession on the Midouze and Adour, according to the prefecture.

The situation was also slowly improving on the road network, with four roads reopened, and 45 secondary axes closed to traffic on Saturday, especially in the center and southwest of the Landes, against about sixty in the middle of the week, and 65 others. roads remaining under surveillance, according to a midday point.

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