Barrage de Sarrans

Aveyron · France

Barrage de Sarrans, France
Photo: jmb, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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A curved gravity dam on the Truyere completed in 1934, forming a reservoir that snakes for tens of kilometres through the Aubrac plateau's gorges. Its emptying for maintenance in 2014 briefly revealed a submerged village.

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