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22-510: Ray-sur-Saône ( French pronunciation: [ʁɛ syʁ son] , literally Ray on Saône ) is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France . This Haute-Saône geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sa%C3%B4ne The Saône ( / s oʊ n / SOHN , French: [son] ; Arpitan : Sona ; Latin : Arar )

44-671: A limited volume of water. By contrast, a medium-sized flood of the lesser Saône can turn into a significant flood downstream, if the Doubs brings in a similar contribution at about the same time. Historic floods include: The reference flood in town planning is the 100-year flood . This reference was in the course of being modified as maps linked to modelling the 1840 flood in modern town planning conditions were distributed to local mayors in December 2008, and as new prevention plans were ordered for 2012. Haute-Sa%C3%B4ne The department

66-512: A mean annual flow rate of 473 cubic metres per second (16,700 cu ft/s), with a 100-year flood flow rate of 3,180 cubic metres per second (112,000 cu ft/s) The runoff curve number from the river's entire watershed is 501 millimetres (19.7 in), and the specific flow rate rises to 15.8 litres per second per square km of watershed. Overall, the average flow rate in Lyon is 475 cubic metres per second (16,800 cu ft/s), with

88-633: A minimum of 153 cubic metres per second (5,400 cu ft/s), in August, and a maximum of 954 cubic metres per second (33,700 cu ft/s), in February. When the Saône floods, the impact varies considerably over the course of the river. A large flood with a strong flow rate upstream can be largely attenuated in the Bressan plain so as to have only moderate impact at Mâcon, particularly if it carries

110-594: A monthly average of 16.9 cubic metres per second (600 cu ft/s) in August. The runoff curve number in the upper basin of the lesser Saône is 505 millimetres (19.9 in) annually, cf. 687 millimetres (27.0 in) for the Lanterne, an elevated figure resulting from the very high rainfall in the Vosgian part of its watershed. The specific flow rate rises to 16.0 litres per second per square kilometre of watershed. The maximum instantaneous recorded flow rate

132-536: A savage reduction in population, from nearly 350,000 in the middle of the nineteenth century to barely 200,000 on the eve of the Second World War , as people migrated to newly industrialising population centres, often outside Metropolitan France . During the second half of the twentieth century the mass mobility conferred by the surge in automobile ownership permitted some recovery of the population figure to approximately 234,000 in 2004. The rural nature of

154-490: A vast plain approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) wide as far as Lyon in the basin of the former Bressan lake. The slope is very gradual, and without hydraulic projects up to the north of Chalon aimed at guaranteeing a deep navigation channel, overflows would be more frequent. At the Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or hydrological station, where the river enters the Lyon area, measurements taken between 1969 and 1986 revealed

176-576: A watershed area of 3,740 square kilometres (1,440 sq mi) (the upper basin of the lesser Saône), and has an annual maximum of 64.5 cubic metres per second (2,280 cu ft/s) and a minimum of 54.8 cubic metres per second (1,940 cu ft/s). The river exhibits seasonal variations in flow rate, with winter floods from 84 to 108 cubic metres per second (3,000 to 3,800 cu ft/s) from December to March inclusive, and summer reductions in July/August/September falling to

198-871: Is a river in eastern France . It is a right tributary of the Rhône , rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon , at the southern end of the Presqu'île . The name Saône derives from that of the Gallic river goddess Souconna , which has also been connected with a local Celtic tribe, the Sequanes . Monastic copyists progressively transformed Souconna to Saoconna , which ultimately gave rise to Saône . The other recorded ancient names for

220-765: Is navigable for Freycinet gauge ships and has 19 locks. The Saône is linked with the Loire by the Canal du Centre , with the Yonne by the Canal de Bourgogne , with the Marne by the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne (previously the Canal de la Marne à la Saône), with the Meuse by the Canal de l'Est , whose southern branch has been renamed the Canal des Vosges , and with the Rhine by

242-656: The Canal du Rhône au Rhin . All the canals are Freycinet gauge . Also navigable are the small Canal de Pont-de-Vaux (3 km), the Seille, navigable in a 40-kilometre (25 mi) stretch up to Louhans , as well as the lower part of the Doubs. None of these three connect the Saône to any other waterway. The lesser Saône has a tendency to flood (sometimes influenced by snow), with a very strong oceanic effect. The soils are not susceptible to much infiltration , so that they saturate quickly which contributes to surface runoff . The flow rate grows very quickly, and after receiving

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264-597: The Siege of Belfort . The department welcomes Alsatians fleeing the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine . The department has an important mining and industrial past (coal, salt, iron, lead-silver-copper mines, bituminous shale, stationery, spinning, weaving, forges, foundries, tileries, mechanical factories). Haute-Saône is part of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , and is divided into 2 arrondissements and 17 cantons. Neighbouring departments are Côte-d'Or to

286-401: The Saône has a substantially larger watershed than the Doubs, at 11,500 square kilometres (4,400 sq mi) vs. 7,500 square kilometres (2,900 sq mi). At 30,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) the Saône has the largest watershed of any French river that does not flow directly into the sea, covering approximately 1/18 of metropolitan France . In pre- Roman times

308-481: The Saône is called the "Petite Saône" (lesser Saône), which reflects the large contribution of the Doubs to the Saône. In fact the Doubs's mean annual flow rate is slightly stronger than that of the Petite Saône, 175 cubic metres per second (6,200 cu ft/s) compared to 160 cubic metres per second (5,700 cu ft/s); some thus assert that it is in fact the Saône that flows into the Doubs. Nonetheless,

330-614: The river were Brigoulus and Arar . The Saône rises at Vioménil at the foot of the cliff of the Faucilles  [ fr ] in the Vosges at an elevation of 392 metres (1,286 ft); it flows into the Rhône at Lyon at an elevation of 158 metres (518 ft). Its length is 473 kilometres (294 mi). Its largest tributary is the Doubs ; upstream of receiving the Doubs at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs in Saône-et-Loire ,

352-658: The river's name was "Arar", a doubling of the Indo-European root ar (water). According to Julius Caesar 's Commentaries on the Gallic War this doubling reflected the idea that it was difficult to identify the direction of the river due to its slow rate of flow. The Battle of the Arar was the first major battle of the Gallic Wars . Its current name came from a sacred spring, Sauc-Onna , located at Chalon , which

374-528: The so-called Blue Banana zone characterised, in recent decades by relatively powerful economic growth. The department is overwhelmingly rural, despite the area having been at the forefront of industrialisation in the eighteenth century. The industrial tradition remains, but industrial businesses tend to be on a small scale. In 2006 employment by economic sector was reported as follows: In common with many rural departments in France, Haute-Saône has experienced

396-461: The waters of the Lanterne, the Saône already becomes a powerful river. The mean annual flow rate, or discharge, of the Saône has been measured over 50 years (as of 2013) at the Ray-sur-Saône hydrological station, situated about 30 kilometres (19 mi) after the Lanterne confluence between Port-sur-Saône and Gray . The figure is 59.7 cubic metres per second (2,110 cu ft/s) for

418-420: The west, Haute-Marne to the north-west, Vosges to the north, Territoire de Belfort to the east, Doubs to the south and east and Jura to south. The commune of Champlitte is the largest commune in this department, with an area of 128 km (49 sq mi). The department can be presented as a transitional territory positioned between several of the more depressed departments of eastern France and

440-491: Was 930 cubic metres per second (33,000 cu ft/s) on December 19, 1982. The greater Saône is formed by the confluence of the Doubs and the lesser Saône at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs. The Doubs brings a mean annual flow rate of 175 cubic metres per second (6,200 cu ft/s), and the lesser Saône, 160 cubic metres per second (5,700 cu ft/s). The greater Saône has only modest tributaries which have little effect on floods or other hydrological properties. It flows in

462-550: Was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté . The frontiers of the new department corresponded approximately to those of the old Bailiwick of Amont . The department was also marked by the Franco-Prussian War with the battles of Héricourt , and Villersexel but also the proximity of

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484-723: Was used by Roman legionaries to refer to the entire river. R indicates a right tributary, L indicates a left tributary. The Saône is navigable from its confluence with the Coney at Corre in the north of the département Haute-Saône all the way to its confluence with the Rhône (itself a navigable river) at La Mulatière , in Lyon. The navigable stretch is 367 kilometres (228 mi) long, of which 206 kilometres (128 mi) has been redeveloped to European high-capacity dimensions from Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône to Lyon. It has 5 locks. The 161 km long part upstream from Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône to Corre, also named Petite Saône ,

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