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Monitoring of water in the natural environment

 

National Flood Watch

Created by decree of 2 June 2003, the Central Service of Hydrometeorology and Support to Flood Forecasting (SCHAPI ) is a service with national competence.

It is attached, within the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE), to the Natural and Hydraulic Risks Department of the General Directorate for Risk Prevention.

The missions of the SCHAPI are the following:

 

  • Establish and publish daily, in liaison with the Flood Forecasting Services (SPC), a national "flood" vigilance map with real-time online hydrometric data of rivers,
  • To provide the Flood Forecasting Services (SPC) and Hydrometric Units (HU) spread over the national territory with a general support mission: animation, assistance, advice, training, development of operational tools,
  • Collecting hydrometeorological data from different data producers at a national level and in real time.

 

Within the framework of its support mission, SCHAPI has been in charge since 2004 of the national markets for the supply of hydrometric data acquisition stations, for all SPCs and HUs. The objective is to homogenize equipment, communication protocols and practices (installation, maintenance, training, technical assistance).

 

The SHAPI and all the decentralized services of the state (SPC, UH...) showed and confirmed their confidence in PARATRONIC by entrusting it initially, then by renewing the exclusiveness of the supply of the hydrometric measurement stations.

 

Thus since 2004, it is approximately 3000 sites which were equipped with PARATRONIC materials by the various services (see below the list of the services profiting from the framework market).

  • DREAL Alsace
  • DREAL Aquitaine
  • DREAL Auvergne
  • DREAL Burgundy
  • DREAL Brittany
  • DREAL Centre
  • DREAL Champagne-Ardenne
  • DREAL Corsica
  • DREAL Franche-Comté
  • DREAL Languedoc-Roussillon
  • DREAL Limousin
  • DREAL Lorraine
  • DREAL Midi-Pyrénées
  • DREAL Nord-Pas-De-Calais
  • DREAL Basse-Normandie
  • DREAL Haute-Normandie
  • DREAL Pays-De-La-Loire
  • DREAL Picardy
  • DREAL Poitou-Charentes
  • DREAL Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur
  • DREAL Rhône-Alpes
  • DRIEE Ile-De-France
  • DDTM Pyrénées Atlantiques
  • DDT Dordogne

The product used

 

LNS

LNS stations

 

LNS acquisition stations have been specially developed to meet this type of problem: monitoring of sensitive natural environments by sensors, data banking and transmission, triggering of alerts, etc.

 

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