Review article
Construction of the First Water Supply System of Crikvenica in the Initial period of Crikvenica Tourism Urbanization
Duško Katnić
Abstract
The author provides a sort of an overview into one section of the archival material and literature regarding the first water supply system in Crikvenica, alongside a parallel account of the facts from the history of the tourism urbanization of Crikvenica at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. Hitherto unpublished archival material regarding the construction of the first water supply system in Crikvenica, found in the State Archive in Rijeka, is being presented in the article. The material is presented by year, in the way it was arranged and structured in the archival fund. The creators of the largest part of the material are the Croatian National Government in Zagreb, the District Technical Office Sušak and the Modruška-Rijeka County and the city of Bakar. The text contains data that quotes the research of the local sources in Vinodol, the construction of groundwater collection wells, water pumps, the qualitative acceptance of finished works of the water supply, the constant increase in consumption and insufficient capacity of water supply system, as well as about the additional groundwater collection. All of those point to a low functionality of that first water supply system in Crikvenica. The exact location of the first pumping stations in Tribalj or the location of the large and small reservoirs could not be determined. The route of the first water supply system is not fully identified.
Keywords
Crikvenica; the first water supply system of the city; the Hotel of the Arch duke Joseph; District Technical Office Sušak; the engineer Vjekoslav Horaček; the spring in Kučine; groundwater collection wells; the creek Dubračina
Hrčak ID:
330998
URI
Publication date:
1.5.2025.
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