Summary - TST 26

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 26

Juan José GONZÁLEZ REGLERO
El sistema de agua elevada del Canal de Isabel II: 1907-1911

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Key Words: Spain, Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, water utilities, public services, 1907-1911.

[ Abstract ]

This paper analyzes the construction of the elevated water supply system of the Canal de Isabel II built between 1907 and 1911. It was built in competence with a concession of the city council to Hidráulica Santillana, at that moment working for the supply and distribution of water to the highest part of the city. At the end the Canal de Isabel II will explode a system that will permit the supply of neighborhoods like: Salamanca, Chamberí, Cuatro Caminos, Prosperidad, Guindalera. It analyses also the oldest kind of these systems, in Madrid, the works of the “Fuente de la Reina”.