| Canal latéral à l'Oise | |
|---|---|
| Lock on the Oise at L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France | |
| Specifications | |
| Canal length: | 138 km (86 mi) |
| Lock length: | 39 m (128 ft) |
| Lock width: | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
| Current locks: | 11 (4 in the canal and 7 in the Oise) |
| Total rise: | 10.45 km (6.49 mi) in the Oise, 13.1 km (8.1 mi) in the canal. [1] |
| Status: | Open |
| History | |
| Geography | |
| Starts at: | Canal de Saint-Quentin at Chauny |
| Ends at: | Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine |
| Beginning coordinates: | [1] |
| Ending coordinates: | [1] |
| Connects to: | Canal de Saint-Quentin, Seine, Canal du Nord |
The Canal latéral à l'Oise is a canal in northern France that, along with the River Oise, connects the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Chauny to the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. [1]
The path is made up of the canal and the canalized River Oise. When a canal has the word latéral as part of its name, the canal follows the path of the river it is named after but is in a separate bed. When a river is canalized, locks have been placed in the bed of the river so that the river acts as a canal. So, the path described in this article is 34km of a canal parallel to the River Oise and 103.5KM of the River Oise converted to a canal. The transition point is in Janville.
The PK numbers below go from 0 to 34 at Janville and then decrease from 103.5 to 0 at the Seine.