Canal de la Haute-Saône explained

Canal de la Haute-Saône
Canal Length:10km (10miles) to Botans, 14.9km (09.3miles) to Belfort
Current Num Locks:5
Status:Closed
Former Names:Canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône
Date Began:1882
Date Completed:1923
Direction:East/West
Start Point:Canal du Rhône au Rhin at Allenjoie
End Point:Botans
Begin Coord:47.5237°N 6.8798°W

The Canal de la Haute-Saône, also canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône, is a canal in eastern France. Although it was designed to connect the upper course of the river Saône (in Conflandey) with the Canal du Rhône au Rhin (in Allenjoie) along Lure and Ronchamp, only the short section between Allenjoie and Botans has been opened in 1923.[1] In the section between Ronchamp and Botans, several locks and tunnels have been built, but it was never used. The section Allenjoie-Botans is 10 km long with five locks.[2] It was closed in 2013.[3]

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  1. http://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-4010_1931_num_40_228_11115 Le canal de Montbéliard à la Haute Saône
  2. Book: McKnight, Hugh . Cruising French Waterways, 4th Edition . Sheridan House. 2005 . 978-1574092103.
  3. http://www.fluviacarte.com/fr/voies-navigables/region-est-6/voie-embranchement-de-belfort-88 Fluviacarte