the river has on Leštane than it has on Boleč, through which it basically doesn't flow, some of the geographers tend to call the river Leštanska reka (Cyrillic: Лештанска река, Leštane river) but the name has not been accepted officially neither among the local population. A short valley of Bolečica, which can be divided in two sections, Vrčin-Bubanj Potok and Bubanj Potok- Leštane-Vinča is a natural route for several important transportation lines: the Belgrade-Požarevac railway the Kružni put, major road in the southern outskirts of Belgrade which begins almost 30 kilometers to the west, at Ostružnica the section of Smederevski put, the major road which connects Belgrade and Smederevo the section of the Belgrade-Niš highway, at Bubanj Potok Bolečica is bridged by the Kružni put in Leštane and by the Smederevski put, near the crossroad with Kružni put. Works on building additional 3 kilometers of the road from that point to the river's mouth into the Danube are halted in 2006. However, this section of the Bolečica's valley is projected route of the future modern highway which should begin at the Bubanj Potok highway crossroad and continue through the projected bridge Vinča-Omoljica into the province of Vojvodina. Despite frequent discussion by the city government on this subject, no projects have been accepted so far. The name of the river means literally "(the water) that cures the illness" (Serbian: bol, ilneess, pain and lečiti, to heal, to cure). Today however, the river is highly polluted, becoming merely an open sewage canal. Dumping of the sewage begins already at Vrčin, and the sewages of all the adjoining settlements, even much larger and distant Kaluđerica. As of March 2007, the projected sewage collector is still not finished. In addition, Bolečica flows through two emerging industrial zones, those of Bubanj Potok and Leštane. The dumping of industrial waste contributed to the demise of the wildlife in the river, which until the late 1990s was clear brook with small fishes and frogs, but today is dead, murky and full of waste deposits and not suitable even for the industrial use anymore. In March 2019, the environmentalists described the Bolečica as "less of a watercourse, more of a sewage watershed". References External links Info on Bolečica (Waterworks of Vojvodina) Rivers of Serbia Geography of Belgrade Šumadija Grocka Voždovac Zvezdara