The Ombla

The Ombla is a short stream in Croatia, upper east of Dubrovnik. Its course is roughly 30 meters (98 feet) long, and it discharges into the Rijeka Dubrovačka embayment of the Adriatic Sea close Komolac in Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Rijeka Dubrovačka is really a ria, an overflowed stream valley framed through changes in ocean surface rise on a geologic time scale. The waterway ascends as a karst spring sustained by groundwater renewed by Trebišnjica, which is an influent stream streaming in Popovo Polje, in the prompt hinterland of the Ombla. The rise contrast between the stream's source and its mouth is a little more than 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches). The normal release of the stream is 24.1 cubic meters (850 cubic feet) every second. The waste bowl of the Ombla envelops 600 square kilometers (230 square miles) and, other than the short surface course, incorporates just groundwater stream.

The Ombla is utilized as a wellspring of drinking water for Dubrovnik's water supply system, and development of a hydroelectric force plant has been gotten ready for as long as two decades. Starting 2012, the arrangements involve development of a subsurface store and a 68 megawatt power plant. The arrangement started contention in the midst of questions raised regarding ecological assurance and biodiversity administration, specialized and budgetary attainability, and procedural issues identified with the undertaking. A specific concern communicated was that the underground repository may trigger quakes.