Vízügyi Közlemények, 1947 (29. évfolyam)

1-4. szám - VI. Szakirodalom

(7) ways, utilization of water power); 2. river engineering service involving navigable rivers in state operation and border streams, further technical supervision of the flood control and inland water associations; 3. civil engineering service in charge of the maintenance of minor streams and of agricultural soil improvement which was done in the past at the costs of the interested parties or by utilizing the grants given for that purpose. The division of the territory of the service is stated in Fig. 0. Table I. contains the diverse hydraulic items of the state budget for the year 1946 and 1947. According to this budget the total expenditures are set at Florins 24,068,000. Table II. states the budgeted sums utilized within the five month period from August 1st to December 31st, 1946, while Table III gives information regarding the sums used by the respective offices. The most important data concerning the activities of the hydraulic service are stated in detail by the three sections of the hydraulic technical main department. The account does not treat the activities of the National Irrigation Office as said service gives a detailed account of its own in its legal paper, „Öntözésügyi Közlemények" (The Irrigation Review), further, does not deal with the expenditures of the flood control associations, — which are quite considerable in the light of Hungarian conditions, — because these costs have to be borne by the associations concerned. The latter are annually published by the Flood Control Committee of the Tisza—Danube Valley Association 1. Activity of the offices under supervision of the Planning Section. We wish to call attention to the works of the Detachment for Canalization of the Sio River. The aim of this work is the linking up of Lake Balaton witli the Danube, and at present involves the construction of a lock at Siófok after the accomplishment of which the possibility of navigation on the canal at convenient stages will arise from the Balaton basin thus far isolated from the Danube, the great international stream. The canalization of the Sajó, a tributary on the right bank of the Tisza, had to be discontinued on account of the war, and at present is at a standstill. Office, for Construction of the Grain Warehouses technical personnel, which is furnished by the Hydraulic Service, is completing the construction of the grain warehouses, interrupted on account of the war, or repairing those which were damaged, and which are scattered all over the country. Office of the Water Power has made a systematic survey of all the available water power of the country which, in theory, is 7'5 billion kW-hr. On the basis of the economic conditions to be expected in the near future 1 billion kW-hr may be utilized economically. We must finally call attention to the navigable canal connecting the Danube with the Tisza. This 105 km long canal will replace the waterway of 600 to 700 km which had to be used so far across foreign countries connecting the center of the agricultural district with the Capital thus linking the Tisza and its tributaries with the great network of international water ways. 2. River Engineering Service. Inasmuch as the great rivers of the country were used by the retreating German army as its defence line the flood control system has suffered severe damages in many places. The levees were chequered with canon batteries and trenches, etc., the willow groves serving for the protection against wave surges were destroyed in many places. The river beds were blocked by sunken vessels and bridge ruins or by provisory bridge pillars. In connection with the latter the levees were often cut. The special telephone lines running along the levees were damaged or dismounted, the fuel of the pumping stations and the tools of the flood control associations were taken away, etc. The most urgent problem of the years 1945 and 1946 was the restoring of flood control over an area of about 5'7 million acres which activity was spontanously assumed by some of the state and flood association engineers, who remained at their posts, or by other per-