Floods: Gérald Darmanin expected in Bayonne and Peyrehorade this Saturday afternoon – South West

The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, is expected in Peyrehorade on Saturday afternoon, according to information from “South West”. He should come at 4.30 p.m., after a visit to Bayonne scheduled for 3.15 p.m. Friday afternoon as the Nive in Bayonne and the combined gaves continued to rise, he urged the populations threatened by the water to leave their homes .

In Peyrehorade, the maximum level of the Reunited Gaves stream was reached on Friday, around 11 p.m., with a climb of 5.52 m. The recession is underway and continues very slowly. As a reminder, the Landes department had been placed on red meteorological vigilance for the flood phenomenon on the Bec du Gave section, yesterday from 2 p.m. This phenomenon led to flooding and disasters in the municipalities of Peyrehorade, Oeyregave, Hastingues, Orthevielle and Sorde-l’Abbaye. The red vigilance was changed back to orange at 6:14 a.m. this morning.

In total, 211 households were affected, or around 450 people affected. Currently 14 municipal and departmental roads are still closed in the area. Two reception centers with a total capacity of 67 beds have been set up for people who have had to leave their accommodation.

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Landes: in Peyrehorade, we saw red along the gaves

The level of the combined gaves skyrocketed throughout the day of Friday, December 10, leading to numerous evacuations. The flood peak, expected around 10 p.m., was to reach 5.65 meters, the same level as in 2018

Currently, around ten people are accommodated there. The departmental operational center was activated by the prefect of Landes in the prefecture and an operational command post led by the prefect of Landes was set up at the town hall of Peyrehorade from early Friday afternoon. It is currently in enhanced standby. All the services of the State, the municipalities, the Departmental Council as well as the Red Cross are mobilized. 66 firefighters and 30 soldiers from the Gendarmerie are still engaged in the field.

Currently eight pumps are in operation. Clean-up operations will begin in the next few hours. The prefecture always calls on residents, motorists and walkers to be extremely careful and to avoid traffic as much as possible in the entire area concerned. The prefecture and the emergency services are also carefully monitoring the evolution of water levels in the Adour basin, particularly in the Adour des Bartes area (formerly Adour Moyen). A next situation update will be sent to you as soon as the situation changes.