The island of a water mill is the piece of land, extending the roadway downstream of the mill, which goes to the point of return of water. Featureschange the code
More or less long and submerged according to the type of mill, the configuration of the places and the level of the waters, it serves to isolate the "channel of flight" of the main flow of the river so that the water of this one higher, do not pour into that one. The choice of the term is justified by the fact that this point of land is generally isolated from the other lands by the waters of three beds: that of the river, the "canal of escape" and the "channel of discharge".
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