The postwar village · Water and mills · Industry and trade
The first pumping station of Lerna is built
1960 Proven
In 1960 the "Α' Αντλιοστάσιο Λέρνης" was built beside the main spring, on the Argos–Tripoli road. Its four pumps lift 5,000 m³ an hour, about as much as the spring gives, to irrigate 11,500 stremmata in Myloi, Skafidaki, Kefalari and Argos; three pipes carry the water up Pontinos to a channel along the hillside.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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The 1960 pumping station of Lerna on the Argos–Tripoli road in Myloi, with its sign of the Kefalari–Argos irrigation board and the mural of Heracles and the Hydra. Visit Myloi
Sources
- Information sign on the building, ΤΟΕΒ Κεφαλαρίου–Άργους (photo Visit Myloi, 2026)
- OpenStreetMap, way 876375672 Open (opens in a new tab)
- R. Koch Piettre, "Invoking the water of Lerna", Les Études classiques 87 (2019), p. 301 Open (opens in a new tab)
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