From 2006-05-31 to 2006-06-01

Venue: Paris, France

Summary:
The extraordinary risings and floods of May - June 1856, due to an alternation of downpours of oceanic and Mediterranean origin, concerned mainly the Loire and Rhone basins and their affluents, and certain affluents of the Garonne and the Seine River. The Pô and the higher Rhine River also had some floods.
On the occasion 150th Anniversary of the 1856 floods in France and Europe, this event has been organized with the following objectives:
• present the physical aspects of the weather, pluviometric, hydrological and hydraulic processes and their historical and scientific approach
• discuss the social, economic and political aspects and security plans
• compare the historical flood consequences in Spain (1617, 1907, 1982, 2000), Italy (1839, 1951), Poland (1997) and Germany (1845, 2002).

Organizers: French Hydrotechnical Society (SHF), France; the Rhone-Alps, Centre and Midday-Pyrenees Regional Directorates for the Environment (DIREN), France; the French Association for the Prevention of Natural Disasters (AFPCN)
Contact Name: French Hydrotechnical Society (SHF) Secretariat
E-mail: shf@shf.asso.fr
URL: http://www.shf.asso.fr/upload/manifestation_programme64.pdf