You may convey heard that the Louvre museum inwards Paris has been close therefore that staff tin relieve valuable industrial plant of fine art from potential flooding. If y'all desire to know why these industrial plant of fine art are inwards danger as well as therefore y'all should depository fiscal establishment tally out the Paris Flood Map.
In Paris the Seine has already flare-up its banks inwards several locations as well as the river is expected to summit today at nearly twenty feet higher upward its normal levels. The occupation for the Louvre is that non exclusively is it adjacent to the Seine but it is likewise inwards an surface area amongst a high potential opportunity of flooding.
The Paris Flood Map shows floodplain areas as well as areas most at opportunity from flooding. In the screenshot higher upward the Louvre is the surface area marked inwards blueish (indicating a high overflowing risk) but northward of the Seine. You tin purpose the interactive map to persuasion other high overflowing opportunity areas inwards the Île-de-France. The map likewise allows y'all to persuasion which of import carry as well as other facilities are most at opportunity from flooding inwards each arrondissement.
Paris's Department of Urban Planning (IAU) has likewise created a video depicting a 3d mapped simulation of a flooded Paris subsequently the Seine has flare-up its banks. You tin persuasion the video, Simulation 3D d'une inondation centennale à Paris, on YouTube.
