River Lot (Écluse de Saint-Vite to Pont de Port d'Agrès)
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 30 metres long and 5 metres wide. The maximum headroom is 4.40 metres. The maximum draught is 1 metre.
Nicole lock is operated by the Lot-et-Garonne waterway staff, depending on the arrangements made for the transit on the Garonne through to the Baïse. Aiguillon, Clairac, Lustrac and La Rougette locks are operated automatically by a smart card to be obtained from waterway staff and inserted into the terminal beside each lock. Locks may be operated from 09:00 to 19:00 (18:00 in October). Castelmoron and Villeneuve locks are fully mechanised and operated by waterway staff. Conventional signalling is in place at these locks. Speed must not exceed 12km/h in mid-river, and must be reduced to 6km/h in the canalet from Nicole to Aiguillon and within 25m of the banks. Care must be taken not to cause wash liable to damage the banks. Passenger boats have priority at the locks. Delicate passages are all in principle marked by buoys, red on the right-bank side of the channel and green on the left-bank side. Navigation is not authorised above a certain stage of the river, which is announced and indicated by signs placed above and below the two working locks upstream of Villeneuve.
This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "testing"
The navigational authority for this waterway is Conseil Général de Lot et Garonne| Écluse de Saint-Vite Current upstream limit of navigation, no access to lock |
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| Pont de contournement de Fumel (D911) | 0.42 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Pont de Libos (D102) | 1.47 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Écluse de Fumel | 4.13 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Pont de Fumel | 4.57 kilometres | 2 locks | |
| Pont d'Europe (Fumel) | 7.79 kilometres | 2 locks | |
| Sas d'écluse désaffecté de Fossat Disused Fossat lock chamber |
11.91 kilometres | 2 locks | |
| Écluse d'Orgueil | 13.40 kilometres | 2 locks | |
| Pont de Touzac | 18.07 kilometres | 3 locks | |
| Écluse de Touzac | 18.72 kilometres | 3 locks | |
| Pont de Duravel (D58) | 23 kilometres | 4 locks | |
| Écluse de la Croze | 24.47 kilometres | 4 locks | |
| Pont ferroviaire de La Croze Cycle path |
24.95 kilometres | 5 locks | |
| Écluse de Grimard | 27.59 kilometres | 5 locks | |
| Écluse de Puy-l’Evêque | 30.18 kilometres | 6 locks | |
| Pont de Puy-l'Évêque | 31.04 kilometres | 7 locks | |
| Écluse de Campastié | 33.09 kilometres | 7 locks | |
| Pont de Pescadoires | 35.78 kilometres | 8 locks | |
| Écluse de Meymes | 37.79 kilometres | 8 locks | |
| Écluse de Escambous | 41.47 kilometres | 9 locks | |
| Écluse de Floiras | 44.62 kilometres | 10 locks | |
| Pont suspendu de Juillac Single track only |
47.02 kilometres | 11 locks | |
| Pont suspendu de Castelfranc | 51.56 kilometres | 11 locks | |
| Écluse de Castelfranc | 52.16 kilometres | 11 locks | |
| Site de l'ancienne Écluse d'Albas Site of the former Albas lock (infilled) |
55.72 kilometres | 12 locks | |
| Écluse d'Albas Current upstream limit of navigation |
56.67 kilometres | 12 locks | |
| Pont d'Albas | 57.17 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Pont de Laboule | 63.85 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Pont de Avenue de l' Auuxerrois | 64.35 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Pont de Luzech | 64.92 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Barrage de Luzech | 65.10 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Quai de Caïx | 66.64 kilometres | 13 locks | |
| Pont de Port d'Agrès | 191 kilometres | 13 locks |
- VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe
- The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
Wikipedia has a page about River Lot
The Lot, (pronounced [lɔt]), originally the Olt (Occitan: Òlt; Latin: Oltis), is a river in France. It is a right-bank tributary of the Garonne. It rises in the Cévennes mountains, flowing west through Quercy, where it flows into the Garonne near Aiguillon, a total distance of 485 kilometres (301 mi). It gives its name to the départements of Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.
The Lot is prone to flooding in the winter and spring, and has many dams in its upper catchment area, mainly on the Truyère, which produce hydroelectric power of strategic importance for the French national grid. Turbining can cause additional variations in flow throughout the 275 km of the river that has been extensively developed as an asset for tourism in the region. The major project to restore navigability of the river Lot was conceived by local stakeholders in Decazeville and Cahors in the 1970s. It meant restoring the many locks, and bypassing the medium-head dams built at five locations along the former waterway.
Olt is also the name of a river in Romania (Romanian: Olt; German: Alt; Latin: Aluta or Alutus, Turkish: Oltu, Ancient Greek: Ἄλυτος Alytos).