Sió Canal
The Sió Canal is a canalised river in the Hungarian Somogy county , which connects the Balaton (German: Lake Balaton ) and the Danube and was built during the Roman settlement over 2000 years ago.
This was created to drain the right-hand Danube swamps and originally flowed into the lake. Today it is the only drainage of excess water from Lake Balaton.
With the construction of the railway lines, a water level control of the Balaton became necessary. The previously strongly fluctuating water level would have endangered the embankments and thus the rail traffic. The direction of flow of the Sió was therefore reversed, so that drainage of the Balaton towards the Danube is possible. The outflow from the lake can be regulated with the Sió lock. If the water level rises above the upper mark of 110 cm, the lock is opened.
It starts within the city of Siófok , is about 121 km long, has a maximum width of 17 meters and a depth of between 4 and 8 meters. At the Danube kilometer point in 1597 it flows into this.
literature
- István Deák: Balaton és Sió-csatorna hajózási kézikönyv / Balaton and Sió Canal shipping manual . Budapest 2009, ISBN 978-963-257-1140 . (bilingual)
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ Everything about Lake Balaton
- ↑ Sió channel popular with recreational athletes ( memento of the original from November 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
