Plans of municipality of Prijepolje - investors offered to invest in 60 natural springs

Municipality of Prijepolje will offer clean natural springs and fountains to the investors interested in investing the money in construction of units for exploiting and bottling spring water. About 60 springs on mountains Jadovnik, Ozren, Kamena Gora and Zlatar, which annually give over 10bn liters of clean mountain water, will be offered for rent.

With the support of the Municipal Development Fund, company VK Mineral has recently developed the registry of drinking waters and carried out necessary analyses and measurings on 60 most significant springs that supply water to mountain brooks, small rivers and the Lim river. The researches and inventory of springs are carried out in three microdistricts, in section Zvijezd – Kamena Gora – Brajkovac, on southern and northern slopes of Jadovnik, as well as on southern and western slopes of Zlatar.

– It is determined that these springs give between 300 and 500 liters of healthy water per second, which is more than 10bn liters on annual basis. Spring Brajkovac between Kamena Gora and Komaran produces 175 liters per second, while Lakića spring in Vrbovo gives 35 liters per second. The inventory also includes the springs rich with water in village Koprivna at the foot of Ozren, as well as in the canyon of the Mileševka river – says Dragiša Rakonjac, the Head of the Department of Economy and Finance of the municipal administration in Prijepolje.

Magnesium and calcium waters are dominant among the springs on the list. According to the laboratory analyses, all of them are in compliance with the regulations governing the quality of drinking water.

– Particularly interesting are three springs in villages Zvijezd and Džurovo. The first belongs to the class of high-mineral waters with increased contents of selenium and fluoride, while the second has the increased contents of chloride. The spring in Džurovo has the highest temperature and increased contents of sulphates – says Ljubinko Kijanović, graduate engineer of geology.