The Deûle (; nl, Deule) is a
river
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of northern
France
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which is channeled for the main part of its course (from
Lens
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to
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the No ...
). The upstream part is still partly free-flowing and is known as the Souchez. The Deûle flows into the
Lys (right bank) in
Deûlémont
Deûlémont (; from nl, Deulemonde) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Situated at the confluence of the rivers Deûle and Lys, it is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord ...
.
The Souchez is formed from the union, in the village of
Souchez
Souchez () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is located northwest of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the missing First World War Canadian soldie ...
, of two smaller brooks, called the Carency and the Saint-Nazaire.
The channeled part comprises two branches:
*the high gauge
canal
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known as Canal de la Deûle which ensures the connection between the channeled
Lys and the
Scarpe (a tributary of the
Scheldt
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) in
Douai
Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Dou ...
,
*the Canal de Lens, fed by the Souchez,
which connects Lens with the Canal de la Deûle at
Courrières.
Immediately downstream of Lens, the channel is unusually elevated compared to the neighboring banks, as a result of
mining depressions.
The Deûle flows through the departments of
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, "strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of ...
and
Nord
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, and the towns of Lens,
Wingles,
Loos, Lille,
Wambrechies and
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle, before it flows into the Lys at Deûlémont.
The Deûle does not yet profit from a
Schéma d'aménagement et de gestion des eaux.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20030910115632/http://www.eau-artois-picardie.fr/edition/magazine/cc30/etude.htm (in French)
Rivers of France
Rivers of Nord (French department)
Rivers of the Pas-de-Calais
Rivers of Hauts-de-France
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