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The Cugir river , with a length of 67 km, presents a hydrographic basin of 358 km²,
which measures almost the entire length of the administrative territory of the town of Cugir.
The Cugir river, through its component the Raul Mare river springs from the Surianu
Mountains under the Patru’s Peak (2130m) and joines the Raul Mic river in front of Cugir
Mechanical factory II, then it continues its way towards north and flows into the Mures.
The Raul Mare river, in its tributary area, receives the water of some small glacial lakes
situated to the left : the Iezerul Surianu, the Iezerasul Carpa (collected by the Raul Carpei river ).
The most important affluent is the Raul Mic river , which springs from the Surianu
Mountains , under the Batrana’s Peak (1794m), and has a length of 28 km and a surface of the
hydrographic basin of 85 km². There is a quay sector on the Raul Mic valley, cut in metamorphic
rock; situated at about 8 km from the confluence with the Aries River. Favored by the tight sector
of the valley, there was a wooden stone dam for the transport of trees here – till 1964, which has
clogged during the time.
Both rivers, before their confluence, have to flow along 35 m long slopes and, in the
piemontan sector, the glens are up to 6 m.
The density of the hydrographic network is about 0.7 – 0.8 km/km², under the maximum
value of over 1 km/km², registered in some sectors of the Carpathians.
The Hydrological Parameters of the Cugir River Basin
In the picture presented above, the big area of the forest fund which has the role to
balance the environmental factors is the Cugir river basin, as it can be noticed.
Before the confluence with the Raul Mic, the average flow of the Cugir river is around 3
m³ per second and downstream the confluence point, the average flow is about 4. 45 m³ per
second.
Huge flows were registered in 1984, when the Cugir river scored 60 m³ per second.
The annual hydrographic flow of the Cugir river
The flow of the two main rivers is variably depending on the seasons, on the rainfall and on
the melting snow amount.
The hydrographic water supply can be characterized as a pluvio-nival mode, but with an
m3/s
10
9,17
9
7,18 7,16
7
6 5,95
5 Series1
4,19
4
3,44 3,38
3 3,07
2,75
2,53 2,47
2,18
2
0
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Underground water
The level of the underground water clutch varies very much, in the meadow area the
depth of the water table oscillates between 2 and 3 meters (here and there even 1 meter). In the
area of the terraces the depth of the water table registers 4 to 12 meters. From a qualitative point
of view the underground waters are bio calcium carbonated, the minerals level being between
50 and 200 milligrams per liter.
Glacial lakes
The Surianu mountainous lake is situated in the glacial circle with the same name at a 1750 m
altitude, in the estern part of the Surianu pick
(2059m). The Surianu lake has a lenght of 94 m
and a width of 7.3 m, the total surface is 0.50 ha
and the maximum depth is 7.3 m. The Carpa
mountainous lake is smaller than The Surianu
lake, having a depth of only 1.6m
Water quality
Water quality on the up the river courses is very good, without impurities and
unpolluted, fact which determined the construction of the two water collectors to supply the
necessary of drinking water for the population living in the area.
Nowadays the town of Cugir is supplied with drinking water from two sources, in a
centralized and independent system, at the same time.
The system of the Raul Mic - built in 1912 - consists of a dam and a reservoir, the water
flowing gravitationally, a treating station with the capacity of 60 l/s, located near Cugir
Mechanical Factory II, a pumping station of treated water, storage reservoirs and a gravity
distribution in the central part of the town.
The system of the Raul Mare- made in 1971 – consists of a ground threshold water intake, a
treating station with 411 l/s capacity, a gravitation flow to the reservoirs, a gravity distribution in
the north of the town and a second flow generated by the water pump to the reservoirs and a
gravity distribution in the south part of the town.
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