River flows in the vicinity of hydropower plants (in the XXth century)

Summary

Average daily river flow data, measured by EDF Hydro, an entity of EDF S.A.


As the history starts in 1916, before the creation of EDF, the legal scope is arbitrarily named Exploitation EDF : EDF SA & Others.
Detailed description

The geographical perimeter is limited to metropolitan France but without its islands. In other words, continental France (without Corsica or Guadeloupe, for example)

These data are also deposited on www.hydro.eaufrance.fr, a national hydrometric database.

The data come from the Castor application. The provision of these data series is governed by the national protocol of the water information system (agreement of 11/07/2003 - with the SCHAPI-DGPR). The surface area of the catchment area is given as a label, in km2.

The map view gives the number of measurement points per geographical position.

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