Photo courtesy of Eaux de Grenoble Alpes.
Only the pipeline entering the heavily protected tunnel gives any indication of what to expect. But a 350-metre drive through the heart of the Grand Rochefort mountain soon reveals why it is walled off to the public. For as you exit, you are treated to a vast clearing and lush green water-refreshed pastures as far as the eye can see.
“Visitors are always surprised, all of a sudden you have the impression that you’re at the end of the world,” says the director of the Rochefort water catchment station, Jean-Louis Avrillier, as he smiles. “You would never imagine that so close to Grenoble.”
