The water quality of Lake Balaton is preserved by these artefacts restored by Szabadics Zrt.

We previously wrote about this in detail at we wrote in detail about the Szabadics Zrt. project, which aims to improve the water quality of Lake Balaton and was launched in 2021. Now, the investor, the National Water Authority (OVF) and its subsidiary, the Central Transdanubian Water Management Directorate (KDTVIZIG), have issued a statement announcing that experts, interested parties and schoolchildren have visited the recently renovated Kis-Balaton Water Protection System as part of the project.

Great interest in the construction

The communication summarises that the project also includes the complete architectural, mechanical and electrical refurbishment of the two structures of the above-mentioned system, the 4T and 21T locks, and the reconstruction of the facilities was successfully completed in March. They add that the construction works were also followed by the local community, which is why the client consortium invited senior pupils from the Sármellék Primary School, in addition to the original target group, to a project site visit on 26 May to show the project sites.

Tamás Busa, Deputy Technical Director (West Transdanubian Water Directorate) presented the activities and mission of the water management department to the attending visitors and schoolchildren, and introduced the children to the most important tasks related to Lake Balaton and how Lake Balaton is connected to these tasks.

Focus on Lake Balaton

After that, Látrányi-Lovász Zsófia, regional technical officer (West Transdanubian Water Management Directorate) brought the history of the formation of Lake Kis-Balaton, its biota and the importance of the Kis-Balaton Water Protection System closer to the children. In his presentation, he looked back to the historical times of thousands of years ago, to the period when the development of tourism and the need to control the water level of Lake Balaton meant new tasks for water management.

The event concluded with a bike ride to the 4T lock in Balatonmagyaród, where the children could take part in a quiz game where they could playfully test the knowledge they had learned during the day.