Canal latéral à l'Oise

Canal latéral à l'Oise
Lock on the Oise at L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France
Specifications
Length	138 km (86 mi)
Lock length	39 m (128 ft)
Lock width	6.5 m (21 ft)
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
Geography
Start point	Canal de Saint-Quentin at Chauny
End point	Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
Beginning coordinates	49°36′32″N 3°13′43″E / 49.60883°N 3.22861°E / 49.60883; 3.22861 ^[1]
Ending coordinates	48°59′18″N 2°04′18″E / 48.98830°N 2.07157°E / 48.98830; 2.07157 ^[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 34 km of a canal parallel to the River Oise and 103.5 km of the River Oise converted to a canal. The transition point is in Janville. 49°27′45″N 2°51′54″E / 49.46255°N 2.86503°E / 49.46255; 2.86503

En route

The PK numbers below go from 0 to 34 at Janville and then decrease from 103.5 to 0 at the Seine.

PK 0 Chauny from Canal de Saint-Quentin
PK 3 Left to Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne at Abbécourt
PK 18 Pont l'Eveque
PK 18.5 Left to Canal du Nord
PK 33 Longueil-Annel
PK 34 Lock #4, double, at Janville
PK 103.5 Janville continues as l'Oise
PK 99 Left to River Aisne
PK 98 Compiègne
PK 91.5 Jaux
PK 99 Connects to River Aisne
PK 82 Verberie
PK 70.5 Pont-Sainte-Maxence
PK 62 Verneuil-en-Halatte
PK 59 Nogent-sur-Oise and Creil
PK 34 Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise
PK 27 L'Isle-Adam
PK 15 Pontoise
PK 9 Cergy Suburb NW of Paris
PK 0 T-Junction with Seine and Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the Barge Capital of France.

References

1 2 3 4 Jefferson, David (2009). Through the French Canals. Adlard Coles Nautical. pp. 14,111–112. ISBN 978-1-4081-0381-4.

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