THE GENERAL HYDROTECHNICAL PLANNING POTENTIAL OF ŢIBLEŞ MOUNTAINS

The General Hydrotechnical Planning Potential of Ţibleş Mountains. The need to supply the cities with water, to provide runoff control and to ensure the efficient use of the hydropower generation potential are the most important motivations of the hydropower planning on water courses. These reasons also prevail in the Ţibleş Mountains, a mountainous area with actual planning conditions for the improvement of the existing situation, both for the mountain area and for the surrounding area. The assessment of the general hydrotechnical planning potential implied the identification of favourable (hydrographical potential, the hydropower surface and linear potential) or restrictive (erodibility) elements, as well as imperative elements (water supply and flood occurrence risk). All these were identified and quantified for sites subsequently subjected to the analysis of natural e as a support for development