Former Quick Cataract

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Former quick cataract


At about 11.5 kilometers of Greben rocks appears to us a bench placed in a zig-zag across-the-bed and forming dangerous cataracts quick, named after the river of the same name which flows on the left bank. To facilitate the navigation was built off a pier from the shore as the river above the mouth nicknames and bottom ends of the island in what follows, the work required 100,000 m3 of rock. On the other hand, to obtain a deep waterway, upstream of the dam was built in a basin 1340 m long, 60 m wide and 2 meters deep, is removing 29,963 m3 of rock. The works were made in the years 1890-1897.

Here's what you start Clisurii down to the Iron Gates I dam top Clisura to take swift cataracts at the southernmost bend of the Danube Banat. Here the river narrows more and more, the two sides formed rock walls, approaching the right side so you can see traces of Roman road well.
This road was started and executed by swift cataracts by Emperor Tiberius in 33-34 years (from commemorative plates of Cozla Gospodin to cataracts, and below the cataracts Izlaz) repaired under Vespasian and Domitian, and perfect, along prelungindul cataracts by-the-Iron Gates, the Emperor Trajan, whose commemorative plate is located above the entrance road in Small Boilers. This road is a masterpiece of the genre and its construction had superhuman efforts to persuade him, especially when the technical means. There, where the rock could not be cut, as they built a suspension bridge beams, along the riverbank. The holes where the beams were set to see today.
Clisura first cataract above is that the formal extension of the Rock mountain water, then after passing the small Romanian port Drencova, meet Cozla cataracts, to the opposite side of the rock bench Nurse, buffalos in the middle of the Danube rocks (like some giant buffalo lying ), and Hill left after we leave Trescovăţ, whirlpools, cataracts Izlaz enter immediately, Tachtalia-Minor Greben Tachtalia-Mare, which before the terror boats were sewage.
To the Danube waterway between Bazias and Turnu-Severin, Clisura in this region, where the river is only cataracts, jokes and whirlpools, Austro-Hungarian government's initiative since 1834 Count Szechenyi remove some obstacles from start-from cataracts Clisurii work-up and continues until 1846. On 15 September 1890, following the agreement between the government on the one hand and Eng Hajdu, Luther H. Braunschweig and manufacturer Soc. Discount Berlin on dealtă hand, sewerage begin systematically, and not ending 1895, as envisaged in the contract, but only in 1898. It was a grand work, which required EXPENSES enormous energy and extraordinary work, but benefits arising in relation to the effort have been made since opening desvoltare Clisura given a great navigation of the Danube, which entailed a severe increase trade all littoral states, which then opened the way to the sea.
Limits Danube Canal opened in the bed were marked by buoys, and for greater safety of navigation through these dangerous places, it established a special corps of pilots, the State, leading all the boats on this stretch.
(Channeling Danube-the-Iron Gates was made by Trajan, he digging a channel to over 3 km.)