Gornji Milanovac Water Cuts: Which Group Are You In?
Water restrictions in Gornji Milanovac began Tuesday at 6 am. Cuts run twelve hours at a time, residents are split into two groups, and the utility company must send out tankers of drinking water.
Will you be without water today in Gornji Milanovac? If you live in the upper part of Vuk Karadzic Street, in Cerska or on Ivovik, the answer is yes, and it runs from 6 am to 6 pm.
The restrictions took effect on Tuesday, August 11, at six in the morning. The order was issued the day before by the Gornji Milanovac Municipal Administration, at the proposal of public utility “Gornji Milanovac”, and signed by deputy chief Zoran Drinjakovic. The reasons given were unfavorable hydrometeorological conditions and wasteful consumption. The cuts last twelve hours a day.
Which group are you in, and when does your water go off
Consumers are split into two groups by shutoff time:
- Group one, 6 am to 6 pm: the second elevation zone, covering 17th NOU Division and 1300 Kaplara streets, the upper part of Vuk Karadzic Street, Cerska, Ivovik, Crni Vrh, Mackov Put, part of Brusnica, the central city zone from the hospital to the employment office building, the upper part of Rasadnik and Velerec, plus the rural area: Takovo, Savinac, Donji Branetici, Vrncani, Ljutovnica, Majdan and Nakucani.
- Group two, 6 pm to 6 am the next day: the southern industrial zone, Vujica Brdo, Radnicka Street and its side streets, Lunjevica and Lunjevacki Put, Mlakovac, the neighborhood around “Sveti Sava” Elementary School and Brdo Mira, the Korcaginovo neighborhood and part of Grabovica, Kneza Aleksandra Street from the employment office building to the tank monument, the lower part of Rasadnik, and Metlac, Fad, Foka, Nevade, Rudnicka and Kragujevacka streets.
The schedule isn’t set in stone. It gets adjusted based on how much water is available and can change from one day to the next, so yesterday’s slot won’t necessarily hold today.
Who brings water while the tap runs dry
The order commits public utility “Gornji Milanovac” to two obligations. The first is notice: the company must announce, a day ahead, through media and social networks, which group is up next and when. The second is the tanker. For whichever group is without water at the time, the company has to provide tankers of drinking water.
A practical tip before heading out to work: check the previous day’s announcement, since the schedule shifts. Enforcement is monitored by the Municipal Administration’s Inspection Department.
Why three municipalities are under restrictions at once
Because they all draw from the same source. The regional Rzav water system supplies Arilje, Pozega, Lucani, Cacak and Gornji Milanovac, and when inflow drops, every town on that line feels it in turn.
The timeline is short and packed:
- August 7: Arilje introduces restrictions over reduced inflow from the system. We already reported on that.
- August 10: Cacak bans using tap water to water parks, gardens, yards and farmland, and to wash streets and vehicles.
- August 11: Gornji Milanovac introduces twelve hour cuts.
In Cacak, enforcement falls to public utility “Vodovod” Cacak together with the communal inspection and communal police, and penalties for anyone who breaks the rule are set out in the Decision on Public Water Supply and Sewerage of the City of Cacak. The ban there stays in force until the Rzav system stabilizes.
There are examples of the measure paying off. The Gornji Milanovac Municipal Administration thanked the companies Swisslion-Takovo, Metalac and Kansai Helios Serbia, which cut back or halted production over the past weekend to help stabilize the system.
Our advice is simple: fill your containers for drinking and cooking before your shutoff window starts, and save the washing machine and the car wash for the hours when water is running. The restrictions stay in force until hydrometeorological conditions improve and the water system stabilizes, and no one has put a date on that yet.
