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Tignes dam lake drained down.

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:32:16 GMT

A few photos taken from the transfer bus earlier today.

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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:33:18 GMT

Great photos!

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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:19:21 GMT

Wow. Any idea why?

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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:09:59 GMT

I've read that, on occasions, the dam has been drained for the original villagers to return to where their homes were and to hold a service in what remains of the normally-submerged church. Whether this is the case in the pictures, who knows.

Re:Tignes dam lake drained down.

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:15:12 GMT

LOTA wrote:I've read that, on occasions, the dam has been drained for the original villagers to return to where their homes were and to hold a service in what remains of the normally-submerged church. Whether this is the case in the pictures, who knows.

I had heard that too, LOTA.
Notably, a couple of Ipads had been left behind, plus several pairs of Rossignals......

Re:Tignes dam lake drained down.

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:35:52 GMT

Joking apart, LOTA, the old village is used as a centre piece for a French TV drama called "Les Revenants", "The Returned". A kind of a zombie approach to what happened to the village, when the dam was being built, and the villagers tried to fight against it.

It is drained every 10 years for maintenance.

A wee Tignes story. Many years ago, I was woken by Frau Mac, with an early morning coffee. She had been on teletext, (must have been a good few years back), made the phone call, and the early morning coffee was to let me know she had booked a week in Tignes.
"Great" says I, "when are we going"

"Eleven o'clock", says the good lady.......

Re:Tignes dam lake drained down.

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:51:39 GMT

Ah, the old Scottish "tignes spirit" ;)

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Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:03:30 GMT

It is usually drained down every ten years for maintenance, however it was drained last year at this time too so must be a bit more going on.

Re:Tignes dam lake drained down.

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:55:48 GMT

andyhull wrote:It is usually drained down every ten years for maintenance, however it was drained last year at this time too so must be a bit more going on.

They must be adding all the sewer outlets for the new stuff built in Tignes 1800 :shock:

Re:Tignes dam lake drained down.

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:36:12 GMT

Hmm, don't eat yellow artificial snow....