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Water level 'starting to recede but very slowly' in southwestern France Water levels are "starting to recede but very slowly", the prefect of the Landes Frédéric Veaux says of France's flooded Adour basin in the Landes. In Peyrehorade, the level of the Gaves rivers reached 5.40 m, close to the June 2018 record (5.68 m). IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES