Residents of the largest Pljevlja city, the local community of Guka, and several other urban and suburban settlements, which are supplied with water from the Bogiševac basin, do not have regular water supply for half a day due to restrictions in water supply introduced by the Vodovod company due to unfavorable hydrology.
Turning the tap twice in 24 hours makes it difficult for the citizens of those settlements to carry out their daily activities, and many complain that the frequent loss of water causes malfunctions in plumbing installations, due to the pressurized air coming out of the pipes before the water flows.
Due to the unfavorable hydrological situation, the municipal company Vodovod introduced a few days ago, in addition to nighttime restrictions, in the water supply of users, who are supplied with water from the Bogiševac pool.
"We inform all users that due to the deteriorating hydrological situation, there has been an exceptional decrease in water flow from the Jugoštica source, therefore, in order to rationalize the consumption of drinking water, we will switch to a partial regime of remedial measures in the Bogiševac basin", announced the municipal company Vodovod.
Restrictive measures are applied during the day from 10 a.m. to 14 p.m., as well as at night, from 22 p.m. to 6 a.m., the following day.
Citizens who contacted "Vijesti" believe that Vodovod has the possibility to avoid even daily restrictions, because it can pump water from the Pliješ plant, but that they do not do this enough to save electricity, which the company denies.
"The pumps at the Podbogiševac plant work 24 hours a day and with their help we pump water from the Pliješ plant into the pools at Bogiševac," said the acting director of the Waterworks. Mladen Dragasevic.
He said that if they didn't do that, the users who are supplied from the pool on Bogiševac would have water only three hours a day, because the inflows from the Jugoštica source have been significantly reduced recently.
Dragašević said that the restrictions will remain in force until the hydrological situation improves and there is no more serious rainfall.
He said that the pool at Bogiševac has a capacity of 600 cubic meters, and that only four liters per second are currently coming from the source of Jugoštica.
Dragasevic said that water consumption is about 22 liters per second.
"Two pumps from the Podbogiševac substation pump water from the Pliješ plant in the amount of 12 cubic meters per second. They are switched on 24 hours a day, but the consumption is still higher than the amount of water that we can pump and which comes from the source of Jugoštica. The current consumption is about 22 liters per second, which means that we lack six liters of water per second, and because of this we had to introduce restrictions in order to fill the pools and carry out chemical treatment of the water", said Dragašević.
In addition to the settlement of Guka, Dragašević said that water is supplied from the pool on Bogiševac to the settlement of Rudnica, Dajevića han, Deveta, the Sedmica building in Moćevac, consumers in Hamdije Šahinpašića Street and 11 houses in Predrag Leovac Street.
Dragašević pointed out that restrictions at this time of the year are nothing new and that in previous years, due to weak inflows from the source of Jugoštica, restrictions were introduced in the water supply.
Jugoštica is 7,5 km from Pljevlje and the first spring that was tapped for water supply needs in Pljevlje, back in 1886. The parallel pipeline to the Bogiševac reservoir was laid in 1981.
The water of the Jugoštica spring reaches the Bogiševac reservoir, which was built in 1980, by gravity.
Dragašević said that the supply of users from the other two water supply systems, Breznica and Pliješ, is stable.
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