Study regarding implementation of torrents' correction in the basin of production unit no. IX Slatina-Timiș, Teregova Forest District

Abstract

The torrential rains that fell in the forest basins starting with 2017 produced torrential floods that affected the objectives under execution, causing significant damages. Significant portions of forest roads and torrent correction works were destroyed, and in many areas the traffic became impossible. The most important degradations that occurred are: breaking the road platform over significant lengths; degradation and, in some places, washing out the road superstructure; clogging of footbridges; degradation and/or destruction of defence/consolidation works (retaining walls, piers, gabions and others); undermining of art works; degradation and destruction of bridges and footbridges; broken art works; destabilization of slopes and landslides. The destructive nature of torrential manifestations and the extent of the degradation produced, make timely and necessary interventions with torrential correction works in the torrential basins within the Teregova Forest District [7, 8]. The particularly high intensity of precipitation in recent years has produced floods that have led to the amplification of the degradation of the hydrographical network and adjacent lands, through deep erosion, surface erosion, landslides, collapses and bank collapses.