Segments of the Fluvial Public Domain (DPF) — Métropole

An element of the Fluvial Public Domain is either a part of Water Cours, or a Water Plan, or a works belonging to the public river domain. The river public domain stems from a historical process that has evolved over time: — the 1835 Ordinance establishing the “nomenclature of inland waterways”, — watercourses referred to in subsequent acts of incorporation including international treaties, — classified since 2003 by order of the district coordinator prefect or the local authority, — in the DOMs, all waterways Water Police Services/MISE identified by the 2005 Circular. These regulations are, according to the Element du Domaine Public Fluvial, the founding regulatory text of it. An element of the Public Fluvial Domain belongs to the State except those which have been transferred to a community or group of communities by order of the PCB (including in the DOMs) and watercourses incorporated directly into the DPF by the competent authority of a community. Originally the DPF was created for navigational purposes. Some elements have been removed from the “waterway nomenclature” and retained in the CFO without special purpose. Since 1964, it has been possible to assign elements to the CFO for purposes other than navigation. The same reasoning in relation to the history applies to the decommissioning texts and makes it possible to identify the competent authority behind the decommissioning. Decommissioning implies the return of the segment to the ordinary law. The transverse limit of the sea serves as the downstream limit of the Domaine Public Fluvial. The Segment of the Public Fluvial Domain allows the link to the national hydrographic repository by allowing it to be divided for the purposes of the DPF theme.