Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului (Mar 2011)
THE CHLOROSODIUM MINERAL WATERS IN CLUJ COUNTY, LASTING TOURISTIC PROTECTION AND CAPITALIZATION
Abstract
The chlorosodium mineral waters in Cluj County, lastingtouristic protection and capitalization. This study represents a continuation ofthe research and assessment of the resources of chlorosodium mineral waters onthe territory of Transylvania Depression, especially regarding the appearance ofsalt springs, which are still not to be found in the literature of specialty.The first step was made by the researcher Chintăuan Ioan, Doctor in Geologyfor Bistriţa-Năsăud County in 2002, and it was continued by the authors of thisstudy, in the first volume dedicated to the Air & Water conference from 2010, forSibiu County.Therefore, Cluj County will be analysed this time, a county to which certainresearches have been done before. Field research could be also added to these,representing the only possibility to update the data regarding the existent salt springs.The first examples already known are the clorosodium mineral waters billeted inlakes situated in Turda, Cojocna, Sic and Ocna Dejului. As locations withchlorosodium mineral waters which appear at the surface under the form of saltsprings with a salinity exceeding 1 g/l, as compared to the 4 ones specified, firstlythe old, abandoned resorts from Someşeni are to be remembered and the lake withsalt water formed in the place of a spring from Pata that is found near the garbagepit of Cluj-Napoca Municipality and many other spots with salt springs found onthe map of Cluj County, such as those located from north towards south: Mica,Gherla, Gădălin, Geaca, Miceşti, Valea Florilor, etc.As far as the protection of these resources is concerned, the main debatedproblems are related to phenomena such as their clogging and sweetening, whichdetermines many springs of chlorosodium mineral waters to become ephemeral.As regards the touristic exploitation of these touristic localtions, the onlyarranged are the one situated in Turda, which is declared to be a touristic balnealresort, Cojocna, Ocna Dejului, and with an incipient character Gherla-Silivaş andSic. The other locations are simply appearances of salt waters, some used in thehouseholds of the natives.
