“…The mean annual water discharge measured at the Beaucaire gauging station is about 1700 m 3 s À1 and the estimated annual suspended load ranges from 1 to 19 Â 10 6 tonnes over the period 1967(Antonelli, 2002Pont et al, 2002;Rolland, 2006;Maillet et al, 2007). The values for the 1-year, 2-year, 10-year, 50-year and 100-year return-period discharges are 4000, 4800, 8400, 10400 and 11200 m 3 s À1 , respectively.…”