HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT AND IRRIGATION CANAL CONSTRUCTION NEAR TISZALOK (HUNGARY)

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 22, 1952
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Canal C ~u.stracti:o.n. Near Tisza1U (lu fiery)
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l,. A hydroelectric power plant under construction is si.t'iated south of the village,
of 'xiszal k, between the River Hernid and the curve of the River Tisza. It
is at present the largest hydroelectric power plant in. Hungary To the nQrth
of Tiszal:?k two irrigation and shipping canals are being built-, o.e, called the
0.main eastern canal" in a southern direction, the other, is the "main western
canal". 'l lase two main canals will be complemented with a net of smaller
irriga io:i canals. All these, constrictions have been decided upon by the prewar
Hungarian C ver meats a ed detailed plans have also been worked out, but war
prevented their reaiizatjon.
2- The fir eAJ;, d' . of the power plant is being built in the large curve of the Tisza
at Tlsza]$i. near Rebzom puszta. Six million cubic meters of earth will be. moved.
Ttti~ power plant will yield 55 million kw current per year, which is equivalent
to 50A000 toes of coal yearly. The height of the dam will be T.5 meters, and the
a: tificlal lake to be created for water storage purposes will contain 'several
.illion. cubic meters of water The total length of the irrigation canals will.
be several hundred kilometers.
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l954,, the following parts of the power plant are to be ready: The dam, shipping
slui.c(ts,, and power' plate With the help of the dean the level of the River Tisza
will be elevated by 9 meters; the Tisza thus will be navigable for large cargo ships
as far as Z hony, the present Hunge ,ro-Soviet border station,, where the greatest
tail:road, and high' ay traffic is handled.
4 The turbine house of the power plant is 'to be finished in 1952. The 7?Ganz10
Wagon Works de l.iv?ered the fist turbines in. August. There will be. three turbines
in a11. Director'of the. power plant construction is Iadislas Teleki; secretary
still under co: straction. with prefabricated concrete pillars B th , 4 w
generator room., 70 meters long, 20 meters wide and 20 meters inside height
3a The 60 meter long steel constriction of the turbine house is finished. The electric
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and chief" missioner of the Communist Party is .ladislas Kiss; head of the
r orkersv, junior, responsible for the construction.. committee as work is Nicholas Gail
5. In. connection with the construction of the shipping sluices, an 85 meter long and
17 meter wide canal is being built for transfer of the ships,,, which will
navigate on the Tisza to Dooabr .., and on the River Bodrog to SAtoralJadjhelyo
6. The 4Qmain. eastern canal.," will touch the fol.loving' cities and villages-.
Vddszentr -Haidunalas, -Haj ubo'sz3 e'y.nBe,lmaztijvarrsmHa,jd .szohasz.lo `ete't,len-
Bakonys a _ `~It will be 97 kilometers long-. Fifty thousand liters of water
will flow per minute through the sluices int the canal. The canal' will not only
serve fot. irrigation, but will also be navigable for 19000, ton cargoes. Ten million
cubic meters of earth will be moved. At present work is going on busily between
Bads ze.tai ,ha'l. -Ra. jdu _q'a's y only a few kilometers of the canal. have been
finis;'ee~da Most of the workers are slave laborers, political deportees, with
max: wen and even children among them who work under inhuman conditions. There
are also two allegedly Soviet-made 'bulldozers (foldkotro) at work; -one of them
cleans away 4 S,'0Q0 cubic meters of earth daily,, the other one 29000 The main
eastern ca al is to be finished by 1953, as far as Hajduszoboszlo9 and it will
irri,ate. the state estate at N 1,udvar9 where rice its being grown.
7. The main wveatern, canal: is a smaller construction and only about three million
cabi,c met(ers of earth will be moved. This canal will irrigate about 200,000
cad-astral yokes o
8. Along the main can als/ about 200 kilometers long, a forest strip 1.s being planted.
Such affco ?estatiori is. also being done now around Hajdun n ,,, where about 39000
acres have- been p.l.amnted, mainly oak. Oak., once abundant on. the Alfold
( Beat Hungarian Plain). a few magnificent specimens only remained near
,?iszad(cib--almost totally disappeared in the last century, and so the new
afforestati. an of oak along the canals is a novelty.
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