Importance of watermills for the Romanian local community

Hognogi, Gheorghe-Gavrilă; Marian-Potra, Alexandra-Camelia; Pop, Ana-Maria; Mălăescu, Simona

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.031

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“…3), so that the plant overall cost usually remains below 70,000 €. Furthermore, water wheels in old mills contribute to the promotion of the cultural heritage, social activities, small economies based on local production sales, and tourism development in the area (Hognogi et al 2021;Quaranta et al 2021b). Water wheels exhibit good ecological behavior (Quaranta and Wolter 2020), but with possible acoustic impacts (Quaranta and Müller 2021).…”

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Is There a Residual and Hidden Potential for Small and Micro Hydropower in Europe? A Screening-Level Regional Assessment

Quaranta

Bódis²,

Kasiulis

et al. 2022

Water Resour Manage

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Small hydropower plants (installed power below 10 MW) are generally considered less impacting than larger plants, and this has stimulated their rapid spread, with a developing potential that is not exhausted yet. However, since they can cause environmental impacts, especially in case of cascade installations, there is the need to operate them in a more sustainable way, e.g. considering ecosystem needs and by developing low-impacting technologies. In this paper, an assessment was conducted to estimate how the environmental flow and the plant spatial density affect the small hydropower potential (considering run-of-river schemes, diversion type, DROR) in the European Union. The potential of DROR is 79 TWh/y under the strictest environmental constraints considered, and 1,710 TWh/y under the laxest constraints. The potential of low-impacting micro technologies (< 100 kW) was also assessed, showing that the economic potential of hydrokinetic turbines in rivers is 1.2 TWh/y, that of water wheels in old mills is 1.6 TWh/y, and the hydropower potential of water and wastewater networks is 3.1 TWh/y, at an average investment cost of 5,000 €/kW.

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Is There a Residual and Hidden Potential for Small and Micro Hydropower in Europe? A Screening-Level Regional Assessment

Quaranta

Bódis²,

Kasiulis

et al. 2022

Water Resour Manage

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“…It is a heritage that will only survive if it is appreciated by the community and especially by the new generations (ICOMOS, 1999). In the case of unused mills sets, the perspective for their understanding has changed at a physical and social level, since the interrelation with the natural environment in which it is located is very direct and, on the other hand, current human activity has lost such interconnection, so it needs to be properly explained to guarantee the survival of this cultural heritage (Hognogi, Marian-Potra, Pop, & Mălăescu, 2021). Therefore, any intervention must be preceded by a careful analysis of its form and organization.…”

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Abandoned rural pre-industrial heritage: study of the Riamonte mil complex (Galicia, Spain)

Pouso-Iglesias¹,

Arcones-Pascual²,

Bellido-Blanco³

et al. 2023

Virtual Archaeol. Rev.

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Highlights: Graphic tools and virtual reconstruction applied to watermills contribute to their overall understanding as an anthropogenic landscape. Virtual reconstruction of the milling mechanisms allows us to understand the mill operation beyond the mere construction preservation. The Riamonte mills are an example of a group of canal mills linked to a single dam and with a social typology of inheriting turns to grind. Abstract: Each concello (municipality) in Galicia is home to a large number of pre-industrial rural heritage assets integrated into the landscape. Among them are the water mills, usually made up of small constructions that are difficult to reuse in their original function. They are not easily compatible with other uses either. Their current state of abandonment requires their cataloguing and correct valorization as pre-industrial archaeological heritage. These constructions must be conceived as interrelated constructive groupings, in their original physical and social context. A good example of this is the unpublished sample of the Riamonte milling complex. Its study, digitalization and virtual recreation by means of computer-assisted graphics have great potential for dissemination to the public and better integration into the nature trail near the riverbed. Graphically presenting archaeological heritage through virtual media helps to promote social understanding in order to raise awareness of the importance of its protection and irreplaceable nature, especially in case of those vestiges lacking sufficient security to survive. Due to the large amount of vegetation around the wall remains, a rigorous planimetric survey of the entire complex was carried out, followed by three-dimensional (3D) modelling of representative elements. In addition, applying a rigorous principle of transparency, a chromatic differentiation is made in the 2D and 3D virtual reconstructions between already existing and newly added elements. Regarding the 3D model, a historical-archaeological evidence scale is used, allowing a graphic identification of the authenticity degree required to provide reliability in the reconstruction of lost or altered parts. This facilitates virtual recreation interpretation among future researchers from different disciplines. The Riamonte mill complex is part of a typology typical of the region, in which the use of virtual models makes it possible to reach the scales of the territory, the building and the machinery, facilitating the correct understanding of this cultural heritage.

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“…millraces) [6] , changes in the relief (e.g. dikes, ditches) [7] , creating and maintaining important habitats for aquatic organisms [8] , and activating local communities [9] . For the northern part of Poland, a cultural landscape typology was prepared based on mills [10] , and the presence of mills could be an important manifestation of socio-economic development [11] .…”

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Historical dataset of mills for Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire/southern Poland from 1880 to the 1930s

Ostafin¹,

Jasionek²,

Kaim³

et al. 2022

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In this article, we present the dataset of mills from 1880 and 1920s–1930s in the area of the former Galicia (78,500 km 2 ), now in Ukraine and Poland. The data was obtained as a result of manual vectorisation from 162 map sheets at scales of 1:115,200 and 1:100,000, according to the map legends. We found 4022 mill locations for 1880 and 3588 for the 1920s–1930s. We present them as vector points in shapefile, GML, GeoJSON, KML formats with attributes for seven types of mills for 1880 and ten types of mills for 1920s–1930s, and mills counted in a 10 km grid. The data can be used in economic, demographic and environmental reconstructions, e.g. to estimate historical anthropopressure related to settlement, agriculture and forestry. Mills are often associated with river structures such as floodgates, dams, and millraces and therefore they are a good example of human interference in river ecosystems. They can also be one criteria for identifying areas where the local population used traditional environmental knowledge. It can be useful for a contemporary assessment of the environment's suitability for devices using renewable energy sources. Finally, the data on the remains of former mills is suitable for the protection of cultural heritage sites that are technical monuments related to traditional food processing and industry.

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Importance of watermills for the Romanian local community

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

Is There a Residual and Hidden Potential for Small and Micro Hydropower in Europe? A Screening-Level Regional Assessment

Is There a Residual and Hidden Potential for Small and Micro Hydropower in Europe? A Screening-Level Regional Assessment

Abandoned rural pre-industrial heritage: study of the Riamonte mil complex (Galicia, Spain)

Historical dataset of mills for Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire/southern Poland from 1880 to the 1930s

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