Lake Ledinci
lake
Lake Ledinci (Serbian: Лединачко језеро, romanized: Ledinačko jezero) is a small artificial lake on the mountain of Fruška Gora in Serbia, near the city of Novi Sad.
The lake was created during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, when pumps in the abandoned trachyte quarry of Srebro were damaged and stopped pumping the water out of the quarry. The subterranean waters, such as the waters from two creeks, Lukin Svetac and Srebrni potok, began filling the quarry.
Characteristics
The lake covers an area of 4 hectares (9.9 acres) and is surrounded by steep cliffs from most sides, with a slope on one side to allow swimmers to enter. It is bean-shaped, with a length of about 400 metres and a greatest width of about 100 m. The average depth is 15 m with a maximum depth of 50 m. The lake is at an elevation of 300 m. The water is characteristically green and clear, due to the constant influx from feeding springs, and chilly even on hot summer days.
Because the lake had no outflow, the water level rose continuously, which represented a threat to the village of Stari Ledinci.
History
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, exploitation rights on the lake were under a multilateral dispute by the local community, the City of Novi Sad, the mining company Alas registered in Rakovac, which owned the quarry exploitation rights, and the public company guiding the National park of Fruška Gora.
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