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This is a variant of route 46 in Craig Romano's classic Backpacking Washington; more information is also available on the Washington Trails Association website.
Le lac du Sautet est un lac artificiel situé à la limite des départements de l'Isère et des Hautes-Alpes. Il a été créé par l'établissement d'un barrage sur le Drac, en aval de son confluent avec la Souloise.
Le lac se trouve sur le territoire des communes de Corps, Pellafol, Monestier-d'Ambel, Ambel, Beaufin et Aspres-lès-Corps.
Le barrage voûte du Sautet a été construit de 1930 à 1935. C'est un ouvrage alors exceptionnel d’un point de vue technique, de type voute, « placé au cœur des mutations du système énergétique alpin de l’entre-deux-guerres ». Il alimente une usine qui est équipée de 6 groupes à double turbine Francis pour une puissance totale de 76 MW2.
Jusqu’en 1914, le Drac n’était équipé que dans sa partie basse. De nombreux projets d’aménagements avaient été étudiés pour la partie haute, sans avoir abouti. En 1918, la Société des Hauts fourneaux de Chasse dépose veut créer un simple barrage de dérivation de 4 mètres. L’administration des Ponts et Chaussées le refuse, demandant un projet plus vaste. Un ingénieur-conseil, Ernest Dusaugey découvre qu’une partie méconnue du cours du Drac est particulièrement propice à une implantation de grand barrage : 126 m de haut pour une retenue de 100 millions de mètres cubes alimentant trois centrales pour une production estimée à 400 millions de kWh. Par une convention de 1923, « reconnaissant les avantages considérables présentés par l’utilisation d’une situation naturelle remarquable au point de vue de l’énergie créée comme de la régulation du Drac », l’administration apporte son soutien financier au nouveau projet.
Puis Péchiney reprend l’affaire pour alimenter une usine mais la crise des années 1930 la contraint à renoncer. Péchiney s’associe à un des grands groupes de production-distribution d’électricité, l'Union pour l'industrie et l'électricité, qui va construire une ligne à haute tension vers la région parisienne.
À l'aval du barrage, pour permettre à la route départementale 537 de franchir les gorges du Drac, se trouve le pont du Sautet. Il a été conçu par l'ingénieur Albert Caquot. C'est un pont en arc une seule arche en béton armé de 85 mètres de portée. La clé de l'arc se trouve à 150 mètres au-dessus du Drac.
L'arc a été construit sur cintre en 1927-1928 par les Entreprises J. Monod. Le cintre a lui aussi été conçu par Albert Caquot. Pour la première fois, le cintre a été conçu en deux moitiés construites chacune verticalement le long des piles de rive et rabattues.
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The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center
GAP Tournament Interns Patrick Shelak, Brett Kingsley and John Kuzmick break down a tent during U.S. Amateur Qualifying administered by GAP at Applebrook Golf Club (par 70, 6,665 yards).
St Mary, Braughing, Hertfordshire
Buoyed up by the very pleasant experience of visiting Westmill and its lovely church, we crossed the main road for Braughing. We had some discussion about how to pronounce this, narrowing it down to about ten possibilities, but discussion fell by the wayside as we turned off of the old Cambridge road and down into one of the loveliest villages I have ever seen. A village green in a bowl through which a forded stream runs surrounded by medieval and Georgian houses, a pub on each side, the village shop, and then down a lane a close of medieval thatched houses around a great beast of a late medieval church on a cushion of graveyard. It was a lovely as anything I've seen in an English village, although the sunshine helped of course. And the church was open, of course, as they always are in places like this, as if an organic sense of well-being had infused the place and its people.
This was the most East Anglian church of the day, almost entirely rebuilt in the 15th Century and looking as if it would be quite at home in south-west Suffolk or north Essex. The porch is a grand, two-storied affair and you step into a church which though vast and considerably restored does not feel urban, unlike Barkway for example, which is a similar size. More good memorials, some of them very big indeed, but the stars for me were two windows, outstanding of their kind, of the early 20th Century, neither of which are signed, and which no one seems to know anything about. The east window is the parish war memorial window, and looks like Powell & Son - did the artist go on to work for them? But the best is in the south aisle, a war memorial window to the Longman family of publishing fame, depicting St George flanked by Godfrey of Bouillon and General Gordon. Very much in the Margaret Edith Rope style, though not by her. While we there the churchwarden came in with a builder, and while the builder did his estimate for something in the tower we chatted to the churchwarden. He's lived in the parish all his life (it is pronounced Braffing, by the way, which hadn't been one of our guesses) and remembers the south chapel furnishings being dedicated in the 1930s. This came very close to being church of the day, but in the end Wyddial just topped it for me, and Braughing had to be content with village of the day, a similarly hard-fought contest.
a serendipitous photo of Watford Gap motorway services, taken by accident while getting back in the car with a camera over my shoulder...
261st Signal Brigade, 198th Signal Brigade and 1049th Transportation Company Aunnual Training at Fort Indiantown Gap on May 11, 2017.
Australian gap year participants and Israeli participants from the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hevruta Gap program participating in a 1 day seminar surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring narratives, how to create productive dialogue, and more.
Photos by Amy Albertson
Being the smallest and most out of the way of the three cemeteries in the area it could be tempting to skip this one, but it is one worth visiting, with it's historical rural feel, including lots of historic monuments to be found.
Ballade en voiture sur les hauteurs de Santa Barbara et Goleta ravagées par les flammes du "Gap Fire" 28/07/08
Car ride on the heights of Santa Barbara and Goleta ravaged by the "Gap fire".
July 28th, 2008
Australian gap year participants and Israeli participants from the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hevruta Gap program participating in a 1 day seminar surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring narratives, how to create productive dialogue, and more.
Photos by Amy Albertson
What: Gap Store Launch
Where: Vincom Center
When: 30-09-2011
Who: Hà Anh
Photos: Viet & Alex
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Mind the Gap is the day when we acknowledge the fact that tuition dollars “run out” and donors step up to fill the gap. We can explain:
Tuition only covers about 75% of the cost of students' education. Tuition could be $50,000 but because alumni, parents, foundations, and friends are helping fill the gap, students pay much less each year. Last year over 4,000 alumni made a gift to support students' education. These gifts help support every student, professor, program, and department on campus.
This special day celebrates the generous donors who give money to the College to help make students' education possible.
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