Pont-Aqueduc de Colombes

About

The bridge-aqueduct of Colombes, more simply called the bridge Aqueduc, is a road bridge crossing the Seine downstream of Paris, between the departments of Hauts-de-Seine and Val-d'Oise. It is a metal arch bridge that allows to extend the departmental road 106 from Colombes, locally called rue Paul-Bert, in the Hauts-de-Seine to reach the street Ambrose-Thomas in Argenteuil in the Val-d'Oise, crossing in height the Quai de Bezons. The Colombes Water Bridge is a dual-purpose art work. In addition to the road, it also carries in its apron four pipes measuring 1.10 m in diameter that cross the Seine at the general emissary, a structure for the drainage of the sewers from Paris to the treatment plant for the water of Achères.

When, under the Second Empire, the prefect of the Seine Georges Eugène Haussmann decided to create a rational sewer system in Paris, his outlet was fixed in the Seine between the bridges of Asnières and Clichy, which would be realized from 1861 by the opening of the collector of Asnières. Since the returned waters were not treated at the time, there was immediately significant pollution...