Raised 5 metres above its point of emergence, the salt water left the hut protecting the pump and directly arrived at the distribution system of canalots or conduits.
Canalots (wooden conduits) were the basic element for the construction of the channels network, the general watering system, which distributed salt water around all the salt beds.
Raised 5 metres above its point of emergence, the salt water left the hut protecting the pump and directly arrived at the distribution system of canalots or conduits.
There were ponds upriver and downriver; the network's channels, slightly sloping, provided them with salt water during the months in which salt was not produced. The water was stored there until the production season began.
The maintenance of the canalots, like that of the planks separating the eras and arcabotes, was almost minimal because their continual contact with the salt water prevented them from rotting.
The third main branch of the network, which was not made of wood and hung from a steel cable running between two towers, crossed the river and took the salt water to the opposite bank.
Photograph from the early 20th century when the salt beds on the left bank were operating at full capacity.