📍 Briare
Usine élévatoire
The elevating factory, built in 1895 by the engineers La Vallée and Huet, is an emblematic element of industrial heritage. Its role today is still to supply water to the canal by pumping water from the Loire to discharge it 45 meters higher at the level of the sharing reach
The waterworks is an emblematic heritage building of the town of Briare, built in 1895 by the engineers La Vallée and Huet. Its function, still today, is to take part in the supply of the canal of Briare by pumping the water of the Loire to deliver it at the level of the reach of sharing 45m higher. This site has a typical architecture of the 19th century characterizing a river industrial heritage.