ROADBLOCK BECAUSE OF GABROVAC LANDSLIDES
5.04.2015

Gabrovac villagers blocked the road to Nis, demanding to urgently rehabilitate the landslide in the village, which a year ago, caused several houses to collaps. They say the landslide is still active, more houses are threatened,, and heavy rains threaten to make situation even worse.

Utility rooms that have been located next to the house of Ljubisa Dejic were razed to the ground. No one can even imagine that here until a year ago was standing building of solid material. Ljubisa has long been baned by building inspectorate to use the house in Gabrovac and evicted are also the neighbors in the house next to his. Bojan Milosevic says that the landslide, which was triggered last year, now threatens also his house. A new rain are announced. I live with my wife and three children, from the last rain all this along the way to the building was cracked. It runs from the last year. We addressed the authorities, there is no answer. I'm afraid for my children, says Bojan Milosevic. Thirty villagers blocked the road to Nis for an hour. In this way, trying to draw attention to your problem.

You see that now is an alarming situation, because the landslide is even more active. We have landslides in two places - the collapse of the road over the street Pobeda and have also one landslide that threatens to shut down the river, says the president of the Council of citizens of Gabrovac - Dragan Djordjevic. A river waits for another rain and is completely undefended in this part of Gabrovac. Trees uprooted, flattened soil, soaked, porous, easy to be parted. The Municipality of Palilula petitioned the City headquarters for emergency situations. Where it stopped, I really do not know, says Djordjevic. From the deputy commander of the emergency situations headquarters Rankovića we learn that they have done their job. Ranković in a telephone statement for TV Zona plus said that on February 27 Staff ordered the Directorate for construction of the city to launch a procurement procedure for the project of rehabilitation of landslides in Gabrovac. It was asked that the experts do it in an emergency procedure. The Directorate for Development of City announced that the detailed information in the coming days.