(SANITIZED)HUNGARIAN WATERWAYS: 1. DANUBE-TISZA CANAL 2. SIO CANAL 3. PORT OF BUDAPEST-CSEPEL(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 28, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage. Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person Is ,prohibited by law.
1. Danube-Tisza Canal
2. Sio Canal
3. Port of Budapest-Csepel
Hungarian a erways:
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
NO. PAGES
REQUIREMENT
NO.
reports on the subject of Hungaribxi"'"" '
waterways:
which was abandoned
a. A one-page report, with
sketch,
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concerning the Danube-Tisza Canal project,
b. A one-page report, with sketch, of the Sio Canal project (Danube-Lake Balaton).
(northern end of Csepel Island).
c. A one-page report, with rough sketch, of port installations at Budapest-Csepel
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HUNGkRY
1. Work on this project began after the war and was
carried forward pacrticularly in 194950 when thousands of
young people from schools and universitie;i spent their .
hclidays c'igging with spade and shovel and receiving almost
no pay.
2. The work has since been abandoned. Cnly some
maintenance is being carried out as the 1954 floods have
caused much damage to the existing excavations along a
stretch of 10-15 Kms.
3. There is no likelihood of the work being resumed
for the ;;ime being.
Sketch Map attached.
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PROJECTED DANUBE-TISZA CANAL
COMPLETED SECTIONS
I. CSEPEL ISLAND
2. DANUBE
3. KVASSAY Lock
4. Locality of DUNAHARASZTI
5. Projected Alignment
6. Locality of OCSA
7. That section of the Canal which
has been partly
dug (0-Is kM approx)
8. Section (Width of Canal at bed level about 30m.)
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Economic
River wort BtJD PEST `. CSEIM (so-called Free Port)
end of Csepel Island
have not been further developed in recent years
and are in much the same condition as before the war.
The follow-in,,;- facilities are available and
currently in use:-
1. Ore deposit
2. Three (or possibly four) cranes as shown in sketch.
3. South quay wall of south basin. This wall was reinforced
and repaired in 1951/52 and is now in a satisfactory
state of maintenance.
4. North quay wall of south basin: Same as precedin item.
5. Grain warehouse
6. Three (or possibly four) travellin;cranes.
7. South quay wall of north basin. In 1953 it was still
in war-dama'ed condition. In 1954. it was under reoon-
struction and has probably been completely restored since.
8. North bank of north basin. This is a slantin bank of
soil and no kind of artificial surfaoinL;. It is unsuitable
for moorin craft.
Attachment: Section of port.
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Sect low o i vbAPeSr- CSeItt. RoAT
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SECRET
H U N G A R Y
1. TI-.e WIUBE - LA1 E B1LATON canal project is still
a long tern plan. The alignment of the present canal is to
be adhered to and looks are to be built at the points marked
"CC" on the attached sketch.
2. At present there is a lock at SIOFOK and a sluice
gate at SIMONTORNYA. The former is a shiplock; the latter,
however, serves only to ensure the water supply of a tannery
b,,? conserving water in times wf iittlo precipitation.
3. The water level of LA BALATON is at an altitude
of 104. m-, above sea level. The altitude at the confl,uenoe
of the SIC canal with the DIMBE at SZEKSZARD is roughly
75 in. at low water. This prodaces a difference in level
of about 3C in.
4.. LIKE Bi,LLTON receives its water supply frca the
river 2'LA and the river PLPOLCZA. When there 1s no
precipitation in their basins the look at SIOFOK is kept
closed to preserve the level of the lake. At such tines the
water in the present SIO canal is quite insufficient to permit
navigation.
5. When the Danube is high, water from it forces its
way into the 3I0 canal frr some dis+anoe.
Enole Sketch map.
Section of projected canal
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S I O CANAL
SECTION OF PROJECTED CANAL
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