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The main river begins after the Rida receives the waters of Haren and the
Exhaure de Milmort. At this location there are marshy lands on which the only two reed beds in the municipality of Herstal have been developed . There is a remarkable pollard willow with a 3 m circumference, which has not been
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Downstream of Bériwa, after the Moulin Nozé, the Rida split into two. The main course was diverted through the current location of rue
Laixheau and flowed toward Place Licour. During storms, part of the stream ran in its original course, via Rue Faurieux, where the vault of the passage under an old
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In the traditional landscape, Ås
Fontinnes flowed through a marshy valley where watercress grew abundantly. The river exhibited an aquatic ecology suitable for watercress: clear, shallow, non-acidic, slow-flowing water. Local residents came to harvest this watercress in large quantities, which they
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The sources of this stream originate in a meadow, and the Ås
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The dominant soils in the Rida Valley are silty soils with favorable natural drainage (Ab) and silty stony soils laden with flint, gravel, or conglomerate and predominantly favorable natural drainage (Gb). The latter soils are directly related to outcrops of flint clay and, to a lesser extent, some
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The springs of the
Ruisseau de Haren are located on the border of Herstal and Vottem; its flow is rarely powerful enough to reach the main Rida. One source is located in a hollow road (Chemin vicinal no. 11) at the corner of Rue des Bruyères (Chemin vicinal no. 30), all under cover of hedges and
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Until the 1970s, there was an open landfill constructed in the valley head of the Rida Valley. This dump was abandoned and reforested, without any specific remediation measures. The Rida River passes under it via a pipe that exits at the foot of the old landfill. In April 2008, Dr. Migeotte, a
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This aquifer is a "high groundwater table" (much higher than the level of the adjacent river, the Meuse); with the development of coal mines, the clay aquiclude was punctured in many places, creating vertical (downward) drainage. This water was drained lower in the subsurface by galleries and
348:(xhavée) on the chalk, followed by a stream with clear water. Reduced infiltration has undoubtedly significantly decreased the flow and altered the course to dry the meadows. The watercress has also disappeared. Ås Fontinnes still retains its semi-natural landscape characteristics.
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Further downstream, the stream is named
Ruisseau du Bouxthay. It is still marked on IGN maps as far as the ruins of the castle with the same name. It joins the main Rida near the current location of Rue Charlemagne. Downstream of the Fontinnes, this stream flows through a
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Bridge under the tracks of the Liège-Tongres railroad line through which the Rida runs underground, along with footpath No. 100. The edge in blue stone in the foreground marks the spot where the Rida reappeared; later it was incorporated into a pipe
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The 2013 municipal structure plan aims to upgrade the sections of the Rida that are still open and bring other sections back to the surface when it feasible to do so. However, the municipality is not part of the "Meuse Aval" river contract.
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upstream and feeds the groundwater table of
Haspengouw. All springs are at the level of the water surface. These are formed by the geological formation of the Herve Clay. The flow of the springs was influenced by the following phenomena:
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railroad line near the Patar farm, there is still a wet meadow, but the water of the Rida is absorbed in a pipe that leads it to the Meuse. Here and there, traces of the Rida's course are still visible in the urban landscape.
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The names "Ruisseau du Ponçay" and "Ruisseau du Patar" that appear on certain administrative maps are not known in Vottem. Nor do one find these names in a list of Vottem's toponymy at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Until the 19th century, the villagers used to come here to cut wood on the
Platduron hill and fetch water from the spring. The spring area is where the Herve clay day emerges. Water that infiltrated through the
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The Rida is included in the Atlas of
Unnavigable Waterways. In this atlas, the part in Vottem is called the Ruisseau du Ponçay (third category) and the part in Herstal, Ruisseau du Patar (second category).
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Recently, a reactivation of springs was observed. A possible cause would be the gradual collapse of the mine galleries, preventing underground drainage and returning the water table to its original level.
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Just downstream, along the Rida, was the farm of Ruwet, still visible on cadastral maps in 1958, with a pond where the last farmer, Mr. Colson, exploited watercress. The pond has been filled in but wild
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Monjoie, A. 1974. Phénomènes de dissolution dans la zone Nord de Liège. 2ème Congrès
International de l’Association Internationale de Géologie de l’Ingénieur, III-18: 10 pp., 4 fig., Sao Paolo.
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fragments of Meuse's terraces. It is noteworthy that the soils in the source and marsh areas are not differentiated, likely due to the low density of boreholes (approximately one per hectare).
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Legends circulate in Vottem about the Rida valley; witches came there and it is also mentioned that it used to be a frivolous meeting place where people came by horse and cart from Liège.
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This stream drains the lower part of Milmort; it is an intermittent stream. Since the construction of the Liège-Hasselt railroad, the water flows through the side drain of the rails.
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In a detailed survey of the toponymy of Vottem, recorded in archives dating back to the 13th century, the toponymy "Rida" appears most frequently. Originally, people wrote
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Along the Rida were nine water mills. That is why the stream was once called "Rieu des Mollins." The original name of the Charlemagne farm was "Moulin du Rida."
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In the late 1970s, early 1980s, the magazine of the schoolchildren of the Athénée Royal de Vottem (located along the brook) was called "Le Rida Enchaîné."
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resident of Vottem, had soil samples analyzed around this landfill at the Malvoz Institute laboratory in Liège. It concluded that the concentrations of
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The Rida is taken to a place called Bériwa (in Herstal ) (Etymology: "Beau Ruisseau" (in Walloon), according to the 1841 Atlas des Chemins Vicinaux).
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The current spring is located downstream from a former landfill. However, it produces very clear water, as evidenced by a large deposit of
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Currently, it remains an unexpected stream and landscape in a largely urbanized environment. Upstream of the springs, we can observe a
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and then deepens significantly into the Meuse's side, forming terraces in the shape of a ravine leading to Herstal.
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Fan, Gangwei; Zhang, Dongsheng (March 2015). "Mechanisms of Aquifer Protection in Underground Coal Mining".
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Pel, J (1960). "Observations géologiques et hydrogéologiques sur le territoire de la commune de Vottem".
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The underground Ruisseau du Bouxthay crosses this valley near the ruins of the castle of the same name
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posed a risk to human health and the environment. At the Herstal City Council in October 2008, Mayor
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Further northwest, throughout Haspengouw, the waters of this aquifer were intercepted and pumped up.
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La culture des fraises au Thier-à-Liège et à Vottem (1933) - Enquête du Musée de la Vie wallonne
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From Rue Bois Gilles, the Rida is incorporated into the sewer network of the city of Herstal
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Renard, E., 1934. Toponymie de Vottem et de Rocour-lez-Liège. Liège: H. Vaillant-Carmanne.
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The slopes of the Rida valley were used for growing vegetables, especially strawberries.
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was questioned about this by all political groups. Council member Johan Vandepaer (
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