Botár Imre – Károlyi Zsigmond: Vásárhelyi Pál, a Tisza-szabályozás tervezője (Vízügyi Történeti Füzetek 2. Budapest, 1970)

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solution of river regulation, flood control, reclamation and irrigation along the Tisza River and its tributaries had been emphasized. He was the first to recognize and emphasize the close interrelation of flood control (levee construction) and river channel regulation which cannot be treated separately as was done in earlier practice. The economic significance of the project has been and still is to this very day too great to be evaluated, since 1.2 million hectares of flood plain area in the Tisza Valley were protected against annually recurring inundation and by extending the area available for agricultural production, further by enabling the evolution of traffic on land and water, the bases were laid for the later economic and population development of the Great Hungarian Plain.