Rance River

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Rance River

The Rance is a river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
of northwestern France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. It flows into the English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
between Dinard

Dinard

Dinard is a Communes of France in the Ille-et-Vilaine Departments of France in Bretagne in northwestern France.Dinard is on the C?te d'?meraude of Brittany....
and Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo is a walled seaport city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine Departments of France....
.

Before reaching the Channel, its waters are barred by a 750 metre long dam forming the Rance tidal power plant

Rance tidal power plant

The Rance tidal power plant was opened on the 26th November 1966 and is the world's first electricity generation station powered by tidal power....
.

The river is linked to the Vilaine

Vilaine

The Vilaine is a river in Brittany, in the west of France. The river's source is in the Mayenne D?partement in France , and flows out in the Atlantic Ocean at P?nestin in the Morbihan d?partement ....
by means of the Ille-Rance Canal.

Départements and towns along the river:

utaries of the Rance include:

This river has moderate turbidity

Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haze of a fluid caused by individual Particle that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air....
and its brownish water is somewhat low in velocity due to the slight gradient of the watercourse; pH

pH is a measure of the Acid or Base of a solution. It is defined as the cologarithm of the Activity of dissolved hydrogen ions . Hydrogen ion activity coefficients cannot be measured experimentally, so they are based on theoretical calculations....
levels have been measured at 8.13 within the city of Dinan

Dinan

Dinan is a walled Brittany town and a commune in France in the C?tes-d'Armor Departments of France in northwestern France. ...
and electrical conductivity

Electrical conductivity

Electrical conductivity or specific conductance is a measure of a material's ability to electrical conduction an electric current. When an electrical potential difference is placed across a conductor, its movable charges flow, giving rise to an electric current....
of the waters have tested at 33 micro-siemens per centimetre.

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