Abstract:
Banat hydrographical area is situated in the
western and south-western part of Romania and
includes the hydrographical basins of the rivers:
Aranca, Bega Veche, Bega, Timiș, Bârzava, Moravița,
Caraș, Nera, Cerna and other smaller Danube river’s
tributaries. The relief of this region is very diverse, with
altitudes that decrease from east to west and fluctuate
between 70 m and 2291 m. The characteristics of the
hydrographical network and of the surface, which have
a very low drainage slope in the plain area, sometimes
nonexistent as well as the limited possibilities of surface
water infiltration, due to the low soil permeability, have
in the past led to the occurrence of unstable
watercourses, with many channels that were often lost
in the lowlands where they formed large flood plain
meadow and marshes. For the economic development
and the profitability of Banat region, an intensive water
management activity has been carried out, which
targeted the design and execution of several hydraulic
structures through all known hydrotechnical
techniques, some of them unique in the Romanian space.
