The department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques is on orange vigilance for rain-floods but also for floods on the Nive, the Nivelle, the Adour Moyen and the Saison. The risk of flooding is to be expected, with a peak expected overnight from Thursday to Friday, warning the prefecture. Update on your traffic conditions and flooding.
17 hours, the deviation (RD918) from Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle is blocked because it is flooded. The Ainoha diversion (RD305) is also flooded but not cut, caution in the area. Sensitive points also in the sectors of Espelette, Urrugne, Louhossoa.
The mayor of Ascain indicates that there are cut roads, and that he has triggered the Pamela plan, to warn the inhabitants concerned by telephone. The Amezpetu stream between Souraïde and Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle has risen from its bed. Some residents are cut off from the world.
– Paxkal Irubetagoyema
In Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, water has entered certain businesses in the town center.
Closures in Hendaye
In addition, the City of Saint-Jean-de-Luz is activating its Communal Safeguard Plan. Concretely, the bay of Chingudy is closed to traffic between rue des Tulipiers and rue des Rosiers. Diversions have been put in place, in particular by boulevard Leclerc. The parks and gardens (Olasso, Irandatz and Lissardy) are closed to the public. One-off closures are foreseeable in the coming night between Hendaye and Urrugne.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture also activated its Departmental Operational Center at 3 p.m., which provides an alert in anticipation of rising water levels. “expected between late night and early morning.”