Author(s): Nagy Laszlo
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Abstract: The first evidences of local flood embankment construction date back to medieval times. Construction work on local flood embankments was started again along the Danube, the River Tisza and their tributaries towards the end of the 18th and early in the 19th centuries. In 1840 the total length of flood embankments in Hungary was 792 km, of which 464 km were in the Danube valley and 328 in the Tisza valley. This initial period of flood defence development lasted to 1846. The growing market for cereals in Western Europe, the recurring inundations and especially the 1845 flood on the River Tisza have prompted the landowners to join their forces in flood defence associations. Large-scale river regulation and parallel thereto the flood embankment projects extending to entire flood plain sections were thus launched in 1846. The first 11 km long embankment section was built on the initiative of Count Istvan Szechenyi according to the designs of the engineer Pal Vasarhelyi along the cut through the meander at Tiszadob.
Year: 2002