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A water plan to protect the spring
24 April 2013 Proven
The river basin management plan for the Eastern Peloponnese (ΦΕΚ 1004/Β/24-4-2013) proposed housing the scattered pumps at the Lerna spring inside the 1960 pumping station and moving the cemetery that lies above the springs. It also suggested irrigating with Anavalos water, so the good spring water could be kept for drinking.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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- Springs of Lerna
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- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Ειδική Γραμματεία Υδάτων, Σχέδιο Διαχείρισης GR03, measure 11.19 Open (opens in a new tab)
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2003
Argos gets drinking water from Lerna
Around 2003 Argos also began to take drinking water from the springs at Myloi, about 500 m³ an hour through a pipeline of 10 km. One source gives 2005 instead.
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2008
The spring weakens in summer
In the summer of 2008 the spring of Lerna gave less than 400 m³ an hour, a fraction of its old flow of around a thousand litres a second.
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2009
Some 570 boreholes around the springs
In 2009 the geologist P. Ntontos wrote that the shared irrigation networks of Kefalari and Myloi had been neglected and were largely out of use. In the Myloi–Skafidaki–Kefalari area almost everything was now watered from…
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11 March 2020
The pumps are still outside the building
At the Peloponnese Regional Council on 11 March 2020 two councillors pointed out that the plan to move the pumps into the building of the irrigation board had not been carried out: "the pumping stations remain outside…