Virág Árpád: A Sió és a Balaton közös története. 1055–2005 (KÖZDOK Kft., Budapest, 2005)
The common history of Lake Balaton and the Sió Canal (1055–2005)
532 THE COMMON HISTORY OF LAKE BALATON AND THE SIÓ CANAL (1055-2005) Tailworks of the Sió canal to the Danube, designed to exclude river floods from the canal and to open the latter to navigation / 383 Inauguration of the Sió tailworks in 1974. With the gates closed, the structure prevents high Danube stages from backing up the canal, and from causing flood risk along the latter / 384 The Kiliti weir plays a key role in navigation on the Sió canal / 385 Title page of the study „'Development of the Sió canal” / 387 Downstream view of the Siófok weir and navigation lock in the 1960s / 389 Chapter X Dr. Károly Szesztay (bom in 1925), who conducted research on the water turnover in Lake Balaton / 397 Sándor Baranyi (bom in 1927), scientist at the Water Research Centre, VITUKI, studied the hydrology of Lake Balaton, between 1960 to 1980 / 397 River Zala, the main tributary to Lake Balaton / 402 Abnormally low Balaton lake level photographed by Jenő Cholnoky at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries / 410 Low water level of Lake Balaton along Szemes on November 11, 2003. (The reading on the Siófok gauge was 22 cm) / 410 The beach at Balatonboglár on November 11, 2003. (The reading on the Siófok gauge was 22 cm.) / 413 The beach at Balatonboglár on October 13, 2005. (The reading on the Siófok gauge was 110 cm.) / 413 Chapter XI Changes in Lake Balaton water levels over the 1863- 1882 and 1963-1982 periods/416 Highest and lowest annual water levels in Lake Balaton (1920-2005) / 417 Annual rainfall depths on Lake Balaton (1997-2005)/418 Daily water levels in Lake Balaton (1999-2005) / 418 Opening the Sió gates and release of Balaton water to the Sió canal after a five years long dry spell on September 1,2005 / 419 Chapter XII Vessel on the Sió canal in 1908 (picture post card) / 423 Steamboat port at Siófok between the two World Wars (picture post card, 1928) / 424 Landing at Mezőkomárom next to the road bridge. The bollard was placed as part of the planned waterway, but was used rarely and not at all during the last decade / 427 Chapter XIII Bathing in Lake Balaton in the 1920s / 433 Siófok recreation resort development project from 1900/434 The Sió canal at Sófok in the 1910s (picture post card) / 435 The Sió headworks viewed from the lake / 436 Annex 1 Title page of Sámuel Krieger’s Kapos-, Sió- and Balaton regulation scheme (July 6, 1776) / 440 Annex 2 First page of the manuscript of the Sió regulation scheme of József Márton, engineer (1857) / 466
