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Proposed Reservoir at Flegere

featured in News & reviews Author Ellie Mahoney, Chamonix Editor Updated

The Compagnie du Mont Blanc has asked for permission to construct a dam below the Flégère lift station. The resultant reservoir will have a capacity of 27,000m³ and be fed from the Lachenal bowl. Environmentalists fear that the water will be used to supply snowcanons on the Brévent and Flégère homeruns but the CMB deny that is its intention. According to a spokesman for the lift management company, the water will be used for artificial snow manufacture on the south facing slopes towards the foot of the Brévent-Flégère link and not on the homeruns.

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