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|  | Roverea, Isaac Gamaliel de |
| name: | Roverea, Isaac Gamaliel de | ||||||
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| domestic | Genêve | ||||||
| lived in | 1695-1766 | ||||||
| job: | engineer, surveyor | ||||||
| Engineered the redirection of the Vieze river in Monthey (Wallis, Valais) to cut directly across the Chateau-Vieux hill insead of flowing around it, thereby putting an end to the flooding that the town was subjected to, in particular around 1726 when the town was devastated by the spring floods of the Vieze. | |||||||
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