Sistemele de alimentare cu apă şi de canalizare în oraşul Piteşti până la 1900
The Water Supplying and Sewerage System in Piteşti up to 1900

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the modern era, the people of Piteşti obtained the drinking water from fountains and wells, but its quality was poor. The Piteşti Town Hall initiated a big project for the water supplying system in 1882, when it was decided to collect water from the springs from Valea Stancii (Trivale Forest) and to construct of a net of pipes for bringing water to town. A second source of drinking water was gained in 1884, i.e. the springs that were found near the Saint Elijah Church. In order to fulfill the drilling as well as the construction of the aqueduct, Franz Walser Factory from Bucharest was hired, whose delegate for those works was the engineer Iosif Matei Brâncoveanu. The works were finished in 1885; the net was 3,363 meters long. A new stage of the evolution of the water supplying system of Piteşti was recorded between 1897 and 1898; the works were co-ordinated by the Colonel Alexandru Budişteanu. The new source of drinking water that was added to the previous mentioned was the one from Podul Balasache. Regarding the sewerage and evacuation of the used and pluvial waters it must be said that the first time the authorities were interested in was at the middle of the 19-th century when the leaders of the town tried to sewer the water courses that crossed the town (Scorobaia, Mislea, Trivalea). Only in 1862 and 1863 the Town Hall intended to construct downtown (on Doamna Bălaşa Street and on Şerban Vodă Street) two underground sewers through which the streams to be collected and then evacuated. Until 1891, the main areas of the town had quite a unitary sewerage system. The southern part of the town was connected to this system in 1894. Although it is situated in the middle of a rich hydrographical system the city of Piteşti took advantage of it only in the last decades of the 19-th century by constructing a integrated system of water supplying. The same could be said about the sewerage and evacuation system. The stages of the achievement of these systems were discontinuous, characterized by more or less successful attempts and experiments. The motives of those real difficulties were multiple: the financial issues, as well as the fact the water supplying were not a priority for all the administrative authorities. Another factor was the unreliability of the contractors. The water supplying and sewerage systems proved not to be viable because the city was in a continuous spreading. Both of them were totally abandoned. The current system was projected at the beginning of the 20-th century. For the present paper used inedited archives documents that are relevant for the modern era of Piteşti were mostly.

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