STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1372, sig. 109-4/1126

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- 2 - the water flowed along the foot of the former railway body, so that the flood now shifts to the areas used for garden purposes. All these interventions in the flood area of the Ritschan stream are carried out without a prior absolutely necessary water law procedure. In all previous procedures for the assignment of municipal land for the management of the station, the local office called for the implementation of a water law procedure, in particular with regard to the damage caused and the permanent devaluation of the adjacent agricultural land of the municipality of Prague. On the part of the railway administration, it has been and is constantly being objected that the final plan of railway reconstruction has not yet been approved and that therefore an overall water law procedure is impracticable. From the previous Commission negotiations it is known to the local office that the railway administration has considered a transfer of the Ritschan stream to the Riedbach, in order to derive in this way all waters into a ditch and through an underpass under the railway body and the Banhofs area into the Potschernitz pond. In the opinion of the local office, this solution is also the only possible solution and we would point out that it was also considered about 6 years ago when the Riedbachea was regulated, at a time when the railways had not yet begun to manage the stations. However, there was no understanding with the municipality of Gross-Dubetsch, through whose cadaster the Ritschen stream flows from the municipality Biechowitz and the municipality Biechowitz treated and independently carried out the regulation of the Ried bacnes within the framework of its cadastral system. The railway administration then went on to construct the ground without a solution to this question, which has not yet been resolved. The tenants of the municipal land claimed damages to the municipal administration. Their complaint was dealt with in autumn of the year l940 by the district authority in Ritschan and by the representatives of the local office and the building office.