Écluse 5 St-Lazare - Canal de l'Ourcq - Meaux, France, UK
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N 48° 57.310 E 002° 54.095
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This is lock number 5, known as St-Lazare, on the Canal de l'Ourcq.
Waymark Code: WM10Z7F
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 07/15/2019
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This is lock number 5, known as St-Lazare, on the Canal de l'Ourcq.
The lock is situated on the east side of the large town of Meaux.
The canal is 108 kilometres long and runs from La Villette basin in Paris to the start at Pont-aux-Perches.
It was built to take waters from the River Ourcq into Paris for drinking water. Nowadays it is used to supply half of Parisian's non drinking water needs such as street and sewer cleaning.
It was opened in 1822 and its locks are a lot narrower, down to 3.1 metres wide, than other French canals. For this reason not many pleasure boats are seen on the canal.
The first 11 kilometres out of Paris is broad gauge and used by commercial boats.
The locks are operated by the boater and a key for this purpose is available at locks 7/8 on the Canal St Martin and a couple of other sites on the Parisian canal network.
This link provides more useful history about the canal:
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