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Everyone talks about the Sau reservoir as a symbol of the drought in Catalonia, not in vain is it at 4% of its capacity, but what can we say about the Susqueda reservoir, which is barely at 21%?
In La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos we can see the effects of the drought also in the Susqueda reservoir, in the La Selva region.
So much so that it allows you to walk among the old houses of the town that were submerged when the reservoir was created, such as the emblematic Can Marquès.
According to the older people, there were four or five outstanding houses in Susqueda: la Grabulosa, Puig de Rejols, Rocasalva, the new house of Sabatés, the new house of Lau and Cal Marqués, whose inhabitants exploited the fields and forests of environment
Susqueda is part of a system of three swamps, together with those of Sau and Pasteral, which unite the counties of Osona and La Selva. The reservoir is a hydraulic infrastructure built on the river Ter, formed by a dam at the height of the municipality of Osor.
Cal Marqués is unmistakable thanks to the remains of the peeled trunk of the century-old elm that is right next door and that has barely endured all these last years under the waters of the swamp.
