Hydrographic and hydrological characterization of the Vodenicka and Rosomacka rivers

The Visočica River rises in Bulgaria, on the Berovo Mountain. Its course in Bulgaria is 16.7 km long. It enters Serbia near the village of Donji Krivodol. Up to the village of Pakleštica, or the beginning of Lake Zavoj, its right-bank tributaries are the Krivodolštica, the Vodenička, the Rosomačka and the Dojkinačka. There are no left-bank tributaries. Among the tributaries, water levels and discharges are gauged only on the Dojkinačka River. The Vodenička had also been gauged but only up to 1978. Originally, there were four river gauging stations on the Visočica. However, three of them have been decommissioned: at Pakleštica, Visočka Ržana and Izatovac. The only remaining station is at Braćevci. For their own needs, Pirot HPP activated the station at Pakleštica in 1990 and at Visočka Ržana in 2011. Based on available data, the paper presents a preliminary assessment of annual and monthly discharges of the Rosomačka and the Vodenička. Topographic water divides were used for the analyses.