Lac de Créteil (Lake Creteil in English) is an artificial lake of about 40 hectares located in
Créteil (
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a pop ...
),
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. This is an old quarry reconverted into a lake in the mid-1970s.
This site is served by the
Pointe du Lac metro station.
At the beginning of 1968, the project began. The work of development of the surroundings of the lake lasted until 1988.
Since 2003, the management of the House of Nature has been entrusted to the Nature and Society association.
In 2001, botulism germs were found in corpses of swans and fish, which resulted in the suspension of the authorisation to fish until 2004.
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Creteil
Geography of Val-de-Marne