Lake of Ledinci
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Lake of Ledinci (Serbian Latin: Ledinačko jezero; Serbian Cyrillic: Лединачко језеро) is a small artificial lake on the mountain of Fruška Gora, near Novi Sad, in the Srem region of the Vojvodina province of Serbia.
Origin
The lake was created during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, when pumps in the abandoned quarry of Srebro were damaged and stopped pumping the water out of the quarry. The subterranean waters, so as the waters from two creeks, Lukin Svetac and Srebrni potok began filling the quarry.
Characteristics
The lake covers an area of 4 hectares and it is surrounded by steep cliffs from most sides, with a slope on the rest, allowing the swimmers to enter. It is bean-shaped, with length of about 400 metres and greatest width of about 100 m. The average depth is 15 m, and the biggest already reached 50 m. It lies on altitude of 300 m. The water is characteristically green and clear, due to constant influx from feeding springs, and chilly even in hot summer days.
Future
The lake is now a small touristic resort, and the local community of Ledinci village and the company that runs it are ambitious to expand the tourist services.
In late 1990s and early 2000s, exploitation rights on the lake were under a multilateral dispute by the local community, City of Novi Sad, the mining company which owned the quarry and the public company guiding the National park of Fruška gora. Due to frequent incoherent court and municipality decisions, the lake was at threat of disappearing at a moment, because the mining company required to be back in possession, and the lake was deemed unsafe due to possible water breakthrough. Ultimatively, the disputes ended in favor of retaining the lake, which presents one of pearls of the National park, and making it a touristic resort.
The rumours in 2006 that the rights for the continuing use of quarry were sold to a certain Austrian firm were repudiated by the National park of Fruška Gora managment, saying that Assembly of Vojvodina already adopted a plan to keep the lake.
However certain works are necessary to be done on the lake. As it has no outflow, the lake continuosly grows, from original depth of 16 m to 50 m today and soon will represent a threat for the village of Stari Ledinci. The idea of several conduits which will take water out into several other small artificial lakes on Fruška Gora still has to be turned into a project.
Trivia
Officially, the area of Srebro quarry is still, after 7 years, classified as a quarry, not as a lake, and members of local community say that any expansion of the tourist development is not possible until this is changed.
Water from lake Ledinci can be used for drinking without any previous treatment.
In 2003, Zdravko Čolić recorded a video for his song "Ao, nono bijela" at the site of the Lake of Ledinci.
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