known for the vegetable production. There is a small dam in Vlasotince, close to downtown, with a reservoir and the beach. By the 2020s, plans were made to build 55 mini hydros in the watershed of Vlasina. After the negative backlash which followed construction of mini hydros in other parts of Serbia, and action of the local environmentalists, the municipality of Vlasotince banned such facilities on its territory in March 2021. Floods Usually a calm river, Vlasina is infamous for catastrophic, torrential flooding, which cause major damages. The entire watershed of the river is prone to the erosion. Especially hit are the sections between Crna Trava and Svođe, and between Svođe and Babušnica. The town of Vlasotince was flooded in 1948. On 26 June 1988, after a period of heavy rains, Vlasina valley was a site of catastrophic floods. Extreme downpours and heavy storms affected river's watershed area in the municipalities of Vlasotince, Crna Trava, Babušnica, Pirot and Leskovac. Upper and central watershed sections received with an absolute peak in Rakov Dol, with . This was absolute daily maximum in the entire Serbia. Instead of an average discharge of , the Vlasina swelled 145 times, to . Tidal wave was tall and, to make things worst, smashed the town during the night. Both the discharge and the height of the wave were never recorded previously. It was estimated that the river collected and carried over 230,000 tons of sediments in the 26–27 June period. Military was dispatched to help the residents. In Vlasotince, 1,700 buildings were flooded, 120 were completely destroyed, so as 55 artisan shops, while all major companies and economic organizations were disabled. Numerous streets were washed away, so as 17 bridges along the river, town's bus station, power station and all generators, sports fields, post offices, city waterworks, overhead power lines and Vlasotince's famous "Park" garden. The Vlasotince-Crna Trava trunk road was cut off on 36 locations. Apart from Vlastince, huge damage stroke the villages of Dobroviš, Tegošnica, Gornji Orah, Svođe, Dejan, Kruševica, Boljare, Manastirište, Konopnica and Stajkovce. All crops were destroyed and the livestock population was decimated. In total, the area affected by the catastrophe covered more than , and caused a damage of around (or 355 billion of current Yugoslav dinars), despite the river flow being supposedly regulated. Subsequent analysis showed a number of flaws in the design of the protected catchment. In the next