Lake Vrutak is artificial reservoir on the
Trebišnjica
The Trebišnjica ( sr-cyrl, Требишњица) is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It used to be a sinking river, long above the ground. With a total length of above and under the ground, it is one of the longest sinking rivers in the world ...
river in
Popovo Polje
Popovo field ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Popovo polje, Попово поље, , ) is a ''polje'' (karstic field) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in a southernmost region of the country, near the Adriatic coast. Its size is .
Popovo polje ...
, near
Hutovo
Hutovo is a village in the municipality of Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossr ...
village,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
. The lake serves as compensation and storage basin for
Pump-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant "Čapljina".
Hydropower and irrigation system
Lake Vrutak is the last and smallest of three artificial reservoirs in hydroelectric power plant system
Trebišnjica
The Trebišnjica ( sr-cyrl, Требишњица) is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It used to be a sinking river, long above the ground. With a total length of above and under the ground, it is one of the longest sinking rivers in the world ...
- HES "Donji Horizonti", and serves as compensation basin for
Pump-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant "Čapljina". Other two being
Bilećko Lake
Bileća Lake ( sr, Билећко jезеро, Bilećko jezero) is an artificial lake located in the municipality of Bileća, in the entity of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, its length forming part of the Montenegrin border thus a smal ...
, the first and largest, and flow-regulation (compensation) basin
Trebinjsko Lake
Trebinjsko Lake is an artificial lake of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the municipality of Trebinje. it was created as a reservoir by damming the Trebišnjica river just few kilometers upstream from Trebinje town with a facility and dam, ...
just upstream of
Trebinje
Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the re ...
.
''(pdf)''; Hidroenergetski sistem sliva Neretva-Trebišnjics: CHE "Čapljina" - JP "EP HZHB" ''(Bosanski/Hrvatski/Srpski)''
See also
*Svitavsko Lake
Svitavsko Lake ( sh, Svitavsko jezero) is semi-artificial lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina, between village Svitava and Neretva river. The lake is a part of Hutovo Blato complex of marshes, lakes, underground karstic wellsprings and rivers, that fo ...
*Hutovo Blato
Hutovo Blato ( sr-cyrl, Хутово Блато) is a nature reserve and bird reserve located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is primarily composed of marshlands that were created by the underground aquifer system of the Krupa River. It is fed from ...
*Popovo Polje
Popovo field ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Popovo polje, Попово поље, , ) is a ''polje'' (karstic field) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in a southernmost region of the country, near the Adriatic coast. Its size is .
Popovo polje ...
*Trebišnjica
The Trebišnjica ( sr-cyrl, Требишњица) is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It used to be a sinking river, long above the ground. With a total length of above and under the ground, it is one of the longest sinking rivers in the world ...
*Neretva
The Neretva ( sr-cyrl, Неретва, ), also known as Narenta, is one of the largest rivers of the eastern part of the Adriatic basin. Four HE power-plants with large dams (higher than 150,5 metres) provide flood protection, power and water s ...
* Čapljina Hydroelectric Power Station
*List of lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take , which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km2. Blidinje lake is the largest natural mountain ...
References
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Vrutak
Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Popovo Polje
Trebišnjica
Lower Horizons Hydroelectric Power Stations System
Trebišnjica river damming and regulation controversy