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into the Vizelj which nearly killed the entire fish population. Despite the pollution, the river is popular among the fishermen, but the recreational fishing is occasionally forbidden on the parts of the course, as it was in 2016 for 600 m (2,000 ft), between river's 3rd and 4th kilometer.
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have been organized since then. In 2014, the channel was cleaned again but by May 2015 it was again covered in vegetation and turned into the morass. The river was cleaned during the summer of 2015. Since then, locals and members of the kayaк clubs organized and regularly clean the stream, including
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By 2020, the communal services which cut the poplars in the surrounding fields, left the cut trees and debris which clogged the final section, cutting it off from the Danube, and turning Jojkićev
Dunavac into the bog. As a result, the water turned black and dying of fish, swans and ducks continued.
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January 2017, which killed almost 40 swans. Further deaths of dozens of swans from avian influenza were recorded in 2021, 2022, and 2023. As in 2023 the isolated strains included those which are almost 100% fatal for poultry, and can be transferred to mammals and humans, the contagion zone was
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for treatment. Due to the distance (Sombor is 150 km (93 mi) away from
Belgrade) and the specificities of the waste treatment, only one truck weekly will transport the bones, so it is planned for the process to lasts for several months. The transport was intensified and the bones were
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The length of the Vizelj, due to the channeling and artificial connections with the surrounding channels, has been reported as either 27 km (17 mi) or 31 km (19 mi). The average width of the stream is 50 m (160 ft) and is 1.5 to 2 m (4 ft 11 in to
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In 2021, the river was dredged and cleaned from reeds in its upped course, through
Padinska Skela. As in this section the river is still not polluted, and majority of settlement has a proper sewage system in this area, this was enough for wildlife, including ducks and swans, to return.
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The central collector pool for the waste waters from the PKB company is still operational within the complex. PKB's tank trucks poor the waste into the collector, from were it goes directly, unfiltered, into the Vizelj. The Glutin has been described as an ecological bomb and the
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In March 2019, the environmentalists described the Vizelj as "less of a watercourse, more of a sewage watershed". Some cleaning of the canal was conducted after the floods in 2019. In 2022, construction of the promenade along the Vizelj in
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region. It forms at the Livade locality, and first flows to the west, where in the Puškara region receives the
Sefkerin canal from the right. At the Carske Šume locality, also from the right, it receives the Buk canal. The Buk connects Vizelj to
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February 2019 by the ecologists and reporters, over 300 tons of fossilized animal carcasses and bare bones were found. Additionally,
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The complex covers an area of 330 a (360,000 sq ft) and is 500 m (1,600 ft) away from the urbanized area of
Padinska Skela. It is used as the shooting range by the
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Branka Vasiljević (5 October 2023). "Птичји грип узрок угинућа птица крај Дунава у Београду" [Avian influenza cause of death of birds near the Danube in Belgrade].
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Jojkićev Dunavac, which makes the final section of the stream, is actually a 6 km (3.7 mi) long canal, cut in the 1950s to drain the soil. In Borča, there is a
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Branka Vasiljević (4 July 2019). "Ekološki bomb iz Padinske Skele odlazi u spalionicu" [Ecological bomb from Padinska Skela transported to incinerator].
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industrial complex, it receives the stream of Lisičji Potok from the left. From this point it meanders to the west, splitting from the road. It flows through
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of the Pančevački Rit". The proposed solutions by the ecologists include the incineration of the waste in the furnaces of the cement factory in
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Branka Vasiljević (12 October 2023). "Проглашена заражена зона око канала Визељ" [Contagion zone declared around the Vizelj canal].
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declared around the stream in October 2023, 10 km (6.2 mi) from the outbreak point, and 3 km (1.9 mi) wide.
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island. This final section is also known as the Borčanski Dunavac, or, more commonly Jojkićev Dunavac, after
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books. Also, all government ministries and agencies claim that the problem is not under their jurisdiction.
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760:[Terrible conditions in which the Borča kayakers practice] (in Serbian). Blic.
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866:[Dead fish float in Vizelj again] (in Serbian). Blic.
697:[Košava wind and fog are enemies of the fishermen].
1015:[Ecological bomb at 20 kilometers from downtown].
847:[Fish kill in Borča's Vizelj canal] (in Serbian).
1013:"Ekološka bomba na dvadesetak kilometara od centra grada"
881:[Borčans ate poisoned fish!?] (in Serbian). Blic.
1092:[Bones graveyard removed from Padinska Skela].
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758:"Očajni uslovi u kojima treniraju kajakaši iz Borče"
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739:"Sprečena ekološka katastrofa u kanalu Vizelj"
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921:Branka Vasiljević (29 January 2022).
908:"Od ptičjeg gripa uginulo 39 labudova"
864:"Mrtve ribe ponovo plutaju po Vizelju"
789:"Uređenje obale kanala Vizelj u Borči"
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955:Branka Vasiljević (7 October 2023).
802:Branka Vasliljević (23 March 2019).
737:Branka Vasiljević (11 August 2020).
695:Кошава и магла су непријатељи рибара
542:Tamara Marinković-Radošević (2007).
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634:"Ono što znamo i ne znamo o Dunavu"
434:A bevy of swans on the Vizelj near
1056:"Ekološki horor u Padinskoj skeli"
989:Blic, Politika (12 October 2023).
877:Marija Kosanović (5 August 2014).
674:Branka Vasiljević (29 July 2020).
609:. Smederevska Palanka: M@gic M@p.
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693:Stanko Kostić (22 August 2021).
906:Ana Ristović (27 January 2017).
756:Marija Kosanović (31 May 2015).
923:Опет откривени угинули лабудови
879:"Borčanci jeli otrovanu ribu?!"
843:M.Lj.Ppopović (21 April 2014).
607:Belgrade and surrounding places
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701:(in Serbian). pp. 27–28.
605:Slobodan Radovanović (2007).
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893:"Fishery area "Belgrade""
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367:Vizelj Park
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292:Mokri Sebeš
288:Stara Borča
257: [
164:Progression
138: /
1108:Categories
522:References
318:, former
284:Nova Borča
239:It enters
126:20°28′13″E
123:44°50′02″N
443:fish kill
324:Mika Alas
280:Mali Zbeg
230:Besni Fok
172:Black Sea
66:north of
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500:cadastre
426:Wildlife
415:regattas
387:Vrbovski
250:Kovilovo
205:Palilula
201:Belgrade
29:Location
507:airsoft
447:ammonia
383:Austria
296:Crvenka
185:Serbian
102:Krnjača
34:Country
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308:Kožara
211:Course
197:Danube
193:Serbia
181:Vizelj
168:Danube
151:Length
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484:mazut
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304:ada
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