Disasterous floods in Podravina region around Koprivnica and Đurđevac in 1965, 1966 and 1972

Rijeka Drava, često i zbog dotoka velikih količina vode iz svoje pritoke Mure, stoljećima je poplavljivala prostore koprivničke i đurđevačke Podravine. U posljednjih pola stoljeća zabilježene su tri poplave katastrofalnih razmjera. Dvostruka je poplava bila 1965., gotovo isti se scenarij ponovio 1966., a po razmjerima šteta u kolektivnom je pamćenju posebno mjesto dobilo izlijevanje Drave 1972. Tada se pod vodom našlo tridesetak podravskih naselja, uključujući i dijelove Koprivnice, oko 11.000 hektara poljoprivrednog zemljište, a uništeno je ili oštećeno više stotina stambenih i gospodarskih objekata te brojne prometnice i mostovi. Evidentirana je šteta bila desetak puta veća od one iz prethodnih poplava. Razorne su poplave dovele do intenziviranja gradnje nasipa, što je smanjilo opasnost od poplava, iako je Drava u još nekoliko navrata opasno zaprijetila. Konačno je rješenje kontrole vodostaja te rijeke bio sustav dravskih hidroelektrana, ali projekti koji su se odnosili na koprivničku i đurđevačku Podravinu iz niza razloga nisu realizirani.The Drava River, often due to the flow of large quantities of water from its tributary Mura, flooded areas around Koprivnica and Djurdjevac in Podravina for centuries. In the last half century, there have been three floods of catastrophic proportions. The double flood was in 1965, the same scenario repeated in 1966, and the serious damages of the Drava River spills in 1972 remain in the collective memory. At that time, about thirty Podravina settlements were flooded, including parts of Koprivnica, also around 11,000 hectares of agricultural land, and hundreds of residential and commercial buildings and numerous roads and bridges have been destroyed or damaged. The recorded damage was ten times greater than that of previous floods. The devastating floods led to the intensification of the embankment construction, which reduced the danger of flooding, however Drava River had threatened to spill on several occasions afterwards. Final solution for the water management control was the system of Drava hydroelectric power plants, but the projects related to areas of Koprivnica and Djurdjevac in Podravina had not been realized for a number of reasons