INLAND WATERWAYS-THE VISTULA RIVER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 342
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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- CLASSIFICATION COIfI'IllEl(TIAL~SECiTRITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IBVFORMATION REPORT'
COUNTRY Poland
DATE DISTR. rj
SUBJECT Inland Waterways-The Vistula River
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The essential elements of information applicable to the Vistula River are
ae follows;
1. Drainage area; 74,600 square miles.
2. Precipitation and runoff within drainage area:
40 inches per year in upper basin _ ?
20 inches per year in lower basfn ~~n~Y~Syariea from 0.50
3? Channel alignment: tortuous and shifting. P
4? A. Gradient:
e. From ukoczow to the mouth of tY.e Przemsze -
3?~3 feet per mile. '
b. Between the mouth of the Przemsza and the
mouth of the San - 1.60 feet per mile.
c. Dram the mouth of the San to Warsaw - 1.38
feet per mile.
d. Fra~m Warsaw to the mouth of the Brda - 1.08
feet per mile.
e. From the mouth of the Brda to Danzig - 0.92
feet per mile.
1.3 to 2 mile per. hour at low water flow
6 to 7 mile per hour a~ high we.ter flan
C. D~.echarge:
The characteristic discharges at Wloclawek drainage area:
56,'100 square miles.
Mileage pout: 430.0
Discharge at low water level - 6,300 cubic Peet
Diachar~. ar ~.. ~~~- _-- _
Dio.si~rgc ai high water level -220,000 cubic feet
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D. Width: Width adapted fer regulatior. corks (river train-
ing works, grains etc.)
FTOm 410 feet in the upper stretch to
800 feet in the loxer =_tiretch, but
dve to not completed regulation works
especially be?twe.on Sandamierz and Pulavr,~
the width increases in som..~ places up to
10,000 feet.
E. Depth: The aim of the regulatior. works was to obtain
5.45 feet of depth at medium water flow.
Sn practice the downward moving sand-bars have
caused the main channel to become so tortuous
that depths of p to 33 feet have appeared at
bhe beads chile ^an3 shoals have arisen at the
treneit points (straight sections) and often
reduce depth there to lees than three Pest.
5.~ Turbidity - rather greet, due to Sediment movement,
6; Jstren, gauging stations were lcceted se follows: ?
Pustynia (0.31 mile); Dwory (2,37 mile)
Bmolice (14.7 mile); Czerrichow (29,6 ails)
..'~Syniec (39.6 mile); Krakow (48,9 mile); Plaezow (50.8 mils)
? '~'~~c (59.3 mile); lfiepeeomice (63.0 mile); Kozica (65.5 mile)
11owa Wiee (71.5 mile); 9taroeecwice (81.1 mile); Popedcyaka (86
.mile)
? ~a?odaiki.(95.4 mile); Karsy (103.4 milel: Pawlow (110.1 mile)
8zozuala (121 mile); Otalaz (131 mile)
Ostrowek (138.5 mile); Kolo (1.48 km1; Dzikow (lyb.y L:iie~;
?? 9emdomiere (167.Q mile); Dsbrowe Wrs~aeks (170,5 mile}; Chwalow'ice
(177 mile); Zawichoet (178.1 mile); Annopoi 186.1); 8olec (206
Hilo); 1!'rolswki I~ae (2Ag,7 mile); :Iarszawa ~Nareaw} 19 mile);
Plock (3g2 sile)j I,-loclawek (422 mile); lfieauxa (43'~mi].a)i
Bilno (41~ ~;le)f i'ortim (456 ur31e); 6a7?ec Kh~sxeki (47$ mile)J
Fortlon (481 she); Chelmno (501 mile); (}rudciadt (518 ffile);
Koreenioro (g39:ffile); He.taweki -Cypel (550 ffile)p Pieklo (552
mile)j Ualaslohes (558 mile); 'Pczeu (5 4 mile); 9chieveahoret
(583.3 mile'),r ..
Z. Seasonal wriatiac of ?llow.
>u6h water - +liraye (due ~to melting enox) in epxing; oecaeionally
(due to heavy rains) in Bummer.
Tow ~al-4aC' - mostly in summer or in fall.
Oa the upper atretsh between ?prakor and 8aade~mierc the diftbrancee
betxeea the lotr water level and that of the maximum wry from about
16.5 to 26,5 Beet.
(~ the ffid,dle stretch between Sandomierz cad Weresw - the'aa~plitude
at water levels ve~ies from 12.3 feet is Aoda, where a very large
inundation area of the river is formed by flood water, due to lack
of protectdve 11kes, to 23.>~ feet at Pulawy.
On the lswer atretcb. the corresponding flgurea are: from 26.6 feet
at Fordoa bo -33,6 feet at 7czew.
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8. Tidal effects: very little and only up to Zcaew.
9. Bed of stream: fine ssnd; no stability,
10. Banks: laoae material; high banks occur occasionally upstream Krakow,
downstream Sandomierz near Warsa~?r and Grudziadz.
11. Control works: {dams and reservoirs)
Tiead Storage Capacity Power Capacity
Roznow on the uunases 103 ft. 230 ?(illion cu, yds. 50 000 ~r
Porabka on the Sola 59 3p " 20,000 "
Kozlowagora on the
Pxzemsza 1Fg " ~ ~~ ~~ _
1,
Wapienica on Biala - -
River 50 1 (for water supply for
Bielsko Town)
12.
BankStibilization works (as of 1944)
On the stretches:
a. Krakow-Sandomierz - nearly completed
b. Fa:-domierz-Warsaw - under construction
c. Wai~eaw-Torun - under construction
d.. Torun-Danzig - completed
13?
Fordability
There are over 200 Band - barks and shoals mostly on the tran-
sit (straight) sections with a depth of three feet or less at
low-water level.
14.
Bridges: located as follows:
~rsY, Krakow; Szczucin; Sandomierz, Pulawy, Deb13a, Warsaw
(three); l(odlin, Plock, Wloclawek, Torun, Grudziadz and Tczew.
navigable reaches
15?
Krakow - karsaw-Danzig
River ports: located as follows:
16.
Krakow, Plaszow, Sandomierz, Warsev, Kodlin, Toru
Tczew, Danzig,
Effects of weather and climate on navigation:
n, Grudziadz,
Dry seasons :.interrupt navigation for two or three
Wet seasons (hiv.i water' interrup+, navigation for
three days,
Ice in wlnte inttrrupts navigation for 30 - 90 da
weeks.
two -
ys,
17. Hazards: about 200 shoals.
18. Aids to navigation: The ~?p~y is pr:,vided w~tL buoys, lights,
and channel Barkers.
19? Interruption factors: The surplus of water from the storage reser-
voirs {sEe point 11 above) in upper basin in-
creases the na viguble depth by ens foot up td Sandomierz sad about
one-half oot at ilarsaw.
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Leah Of ~terWaYs: The Vistula v~ith tributaries (in miles`
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20. The total-.navigable length of the Vistula is 583 miles and the total
tableashrnvF~e distancetthat ships of variousetonnage aan trays
on the Vistula and its tributaries:
Grand
Total
~O1 00 .' E01 00
1~
g
e
1(ax-tonne a vessels oP:
to 50 51 100 I 101 200
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711 i 293 ~ 24AI l7
485 389 ~9
For rafting purposes the Vistula and its tributaries are
navigable for 1750 miles.
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