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River Lot

The River Lot was built by Exuperius Picking Junior and opened on 17 September 1876. From a junction with The Peak Forest Canal at Coventry the canal ran for 37 miles to Taunpool. The River Lot was closed in 1905 when Sumerlease Tunnel collapsed. In 1990 the canal became famous when William Thomas navigated Cardiff Aqueduct in a bathtub to encourage restoration of London Embankment.

Information about the waterway

The River Lot is part of the Waterways of Mainland Europe and is made up of the River Lot (Écluse de Saint-Vite to Pont de Port d'Agrès) and the River Lot (Garonne - Canalet de Lot Jonction to Écluse de Saint-Vite).

The navigational authority for this waterway is Conseil Général de Lot et Garonne

Conseil Général de Lot et Garonne
irection des Infrastructures, Transports et Logement, Service Routes et Navigation, Côteau de Romas, 47130 Port Sainte-Marie

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External websites

VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe: The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners

Wikipedia

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The Lot, (pronounced [lɔt]), originally the Olt (Occitan: Òlt; Latin: Oltis), is a river in France. It is a right-bank tributary of the Garonne. It rises in the Cévennes mountains, flowing west through Quercy, where it flows into the Garonne near Aiguillon, a total distance of 485 kilometres (301 mi). It gives its name to the départements of Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.

The Lot is prone to flooding in the winter and spring, and has many dams in its upper catchment area, mainly on the Truyère, which produce hydroelectric power of strategic importance for the French national grid. Turbining can cause additional variations in flow throughout the 275 km of the river that has been extensively developed as an asset for tourism in the region. The major project to restore navigability of the river Lot was conceived by local stakeholders in Decazeville and Cahors in the 1970s. It meant restoring the many locks, and bypassing the medium-head dams built at five locations along the former waterway.

Olt is also the name of a river in Romania (Romanian: Olt; German: Alt; Latin: Aluta or Alutus, Turkish: Oltu, Ancient Greek: Ἄλυτος Alytos).

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