Holló Szilvia Andrea: Budapest's Public Works - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Developing utilities on doctor's orders

beneath the stream’s bed and thus any contamination from seepage to be avoided. Óbuda lagged behind the rest of the city in terms of sewerage with its trunk man installed along the Bécsi út-Bokor utca alignment as late as 1912—14, and the Villányi út main trunk collecting the wastewaters of the Buda hills also having to wait until World War I. The Buda-side pumping station in Zsigmond tér started to operate in 1917, but precautions had to be taken in case the wells of the neighbouring waterworks were contaminated with sewage inflow.

After World War 1, instalment of basic sewerage units was resumed according to the new comprehensive plan drawn up in 1917. Provisions were now made to ensure more balanced services, which is why such major investments were made on the Buda side as the construction of the main trunks of the Kelenföld region or the instalment of collecting pipes in Németvölgy and on the north slopes of Sas Hill, and a pump house was built in Kelenföld. The pumps of the Francis Town station were switched to electric operation, after which a new discharge point was built of reinforced concrete, and the area around Hungária körút was provided with a complete sewerage network. The sewerage of the industrial district of Angyalföld and of the Castle District in Buda had proven to be deficient by the 1930s. Complaints were also made on account of the untreated liquid wastes of a metropolis with a population over a million being emptied into the Danube near Margaret Island, one of the city’s major tourist attractions. The city's general assembly thus placed the issue of Buda■ The South Pedt iewage treatment unit

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