The Evolution of the Seine Basin Water Bodies Through Historical Maps

Lestel, Laurence; Eschbach, David; Meybeck, Michel; Gob, Frédéric

doi:10.1007/698_2019_396

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“…A further factor affecting the river has been the demand for deeper, larger, and more extended navigated reaches in the basin, specifically after the 1837 law for the improvement of navigation on the Seine River, allowing increased sand and gravel extraction in the floodplain, transported by waterway and used for Paris urban growth [48].…”

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“…since the end of the eighteenth century has been set up, thanks to the archives of Ponts et Chaussées engineers [48]. 3.…”

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“…Their interpretation is aided by the historical research on archives for past pressures, water quality analyses, and social responses dating back more than 150 years. The historical maps [48] enable a description of geomorphological modifications in the river course since the eighteenth century, which can be very slow (as with most natural processes) or stepwise (channelization, damming).…”

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Trajectories of the Seine River Basin

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Lestel²,

Labadie³

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The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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The Seine River basin in France (76,238 km2, 17 million (M) people) has been continuously studied since 1989 by the PIREN-Seine, a multidisciplinary programme of about 100 scientists from 20 research units (hydrologists, environmental chemists, ecologists, biogeochemists, geographers, environmental historians). Initially PIREN-Seine was established to fill the knowledge gap on the river functioning, particularly downstream of the Paris conurbation (12 M people), where the pressure and impacts were at their highest in the 1980s (e.g. chronic summer hypoxia). One aim was to provide tools, such as models, to manage water resources and improve the state of the river. PIREN-Seine gradually developed into a general understanding and whole-basin modelling, from headwater streams to the estuary, of the complex interactions between the hydrosystem (surface water and aquifers), the ecosystem (phytoplankton, bacteria, fish communities), the agronomic system (crops and soils), the river users (drinking water, navigation), and the urban and industrial development (e.g. waste water treatment plants). Spatio-temporal scales of these interactions and the related state of the environment vary from the very fine (hour-meter) to the coarser scale (annual – several dozen km). It was possible to determine the trajectories (drivers-pressures – state-responses) for many issues, over the longue durée time windows (50–200 years), in relation to the specific economic and demographic evolution of the Seine basin, the environmental awareness, and the national and then European regulations. Time trajectories of the major environmental issues, from the original organic and microbial pollutants in the past to the present emerging contaminants, are addressed. Future trajectories are simulated by our interconnected modelling approaches, based on scenarios (e.g. of the agro-food system, climate change, demography, etc.) constructed by scientists and engineers of major basin institutions that have been supporting the programme in the long term. We found many cumulated and/or permanent hereditary effects on the physical, chemical, and ecological characteristics of the basin that may constrain its evolution. PIREN-Seine was launched and has been evaluated since its inception, by the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), today within its national Zones Ateliers (ZA) instrument, part of the international Long-Term Socio-Economic and Ecosystem Research (LTSER) network.

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“…since the end of the eighteenth century has been set up, thanks to the archives of Ponts et Chaussées engineers [48]. 3.…”

Section: A Cartographic Database On the River Course And Its Corridor Showing Its Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Spatio-temporal Scales Of the Research Themes Selected In This Publicationmentioning

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“…6) within 1 year after first arriving on the market and the decline of DDT metabolite, which started with the ban of this insecticide in France, suggest a rapid reaction of Seine River fine sediment (median grain size in the silt fraction) to source changes. In contrast, coarser material (1 cm) travels in the Seine River at secular rates: gravels contaminated by iron smelting during the eighteenth century have actually been used to study the very slow bedload movement in the Upper Marne (see [75], box 1).…”

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Sedimentary Archives Reveal the Concealed History of Micropollutant Contamination in the Seine River Basin

Ayrault¹,

Meybeck²,

Mouchel³

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Sedimentary archives provide long-term records of particulate-bound pollutants (e.g. trace metal elements, PAHs). We present the results obtained on a set of selected cores from alluvial deposits within the Seine River basin, integrating the entire area's land uses upstream of the core location, collected upstream and downstream of Paris megacity and in the estuary. Some of these cores go back to the 1910s. These records are complemented by in-depth studies of the related pollution emissions, their regulation and other environmental regulations, thereby establishing contaminant trajectories. They are representative of a wide range of contamination intensities resulting from industrial, urban and agricultural activities and their temporal evolution over a 75,000 km 2 territory. A wide set of contaminants, including metals, radionuclides, pharmaceuticals and up to 50 persistent organic pollutants, have been analysed based on the Seine River sediment archives. Altogether, more than 70 particulate contaminants, most of them regulated or banned (OSPAR convention, European Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000/60/EC)), were measured in dated cores collected at 7 sites, resulting in a large data set. After drawing a picture of the literature devoted to sedimentary archives, the findings resulting from several decades of research devoted to the Seine River basin will be used, together with other studies on other French and foreign rivers, to illustrate the outstanding potential of sedimentary archives. The limitations of using sedimentary archives for inter-site comparison and the approaches developed in the PIREN-Seine to overcome such limitations such as selecting pertinent indicators (specific fluxes, per capita release, leakage rate, etc.) will be described. The very complex interactions between humans and their environment will be addressed through questions such as the impact on the spatial and temporal trajectories of contaminants of factors such as wastewater management, deindustrialisation within the Seine River basin, implementation of national and EU environmental regulations, etc. This chapter will show how such studies can reveal the persistence of the contamination and the emergence of new pollutants, e.g. antibiotics. It will propose indicators for the evaluation of the environment resilience and the efficiency of environmental policies.

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“…Bąkowski 1902;Falkowski 1971;Trafas 1975Trafas , 1992Plit 2002Plit , 2004Plit , 2010Skrycki 2003;Bogucka-Szymalska 2006;Lenar-Matyas et al 2006;Graf et al 2008;Śmielak 2008;Zawiejska, Wyżga 2010;Kałmykow-Piwińska, Falkowski 2012;Tobiasz 2012;Nawieśniak et al 2014;Ostrowski, Kaszyński 2014;Goraj 2015;Noszczyk et al 2015) and from studies published abroad (e.g. Schirmer 1983;Petts et al 1989;Strasser 1990Strasser , 1992Yang et al 1999;Gregory 2006;James et al 2009;Martinson 2010;Radoane et al 2013;Podobnikar, Lamovec 2015;Salit et al 2015;Dixon et al 2018;Lestel et al 2020). This analytic method, especially when verified by geomorphological field research, provides a good tool for tracing changes in fluvial environments over recent centuries (e.g.…”

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Historical and contemporary transformations of the hydrographic confluence at Sielpia

Fularczyk

Kalicki

Kusztal

2020

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Making use of the cartographic-geomorphological method, a case study of the hydrographic confluence at Sielpia made it possible to identify changes in the river and hydrographic networks connected with the development and decline of the Old Polish Industrial District, whose functioning relied on the use of hydropower in iron metallurgy. The formation and disappearance of artificial industrial reservoirs and canals, the drainage networks, and the appearance of catastrophic flash floods as a result of failures of hydrotechnical structures have been reflected in cartographic materials, land relief, and sediments.

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The Evolution of the Seine Basin Water Bodies Through Historical Maps

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Trajectories of the Seine River Basin

Trajectories of the Seine River Basin

Sedimentary Archives Reveal the Concealed History of Micropollutant Contamination in the Seine River Basin

Historical and contemporary transformations of the hydrographic confluence at Sielpia

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