Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

There are some serious excavations occurring in Yesilteppe ravine. It would appear that masses of topsoil are being removed and this has uncovered what appears to be a small dam probably dating back to colonial times. The ravine must have filled in with silt and covered this up. Does anyone know if it is part of a water management scheme or such like or even what the thoughts behind it are.

Alsancak freebie which I saw today does mention they are doing work on ravines and flood relief etc ready for the winter - maybe this is part of that

This from the man that works the vegetable field on the Alsancak side of the ravine:

"The concrete wall that you can see is actually the original overflow channel, built by the Greeks. The current works will build two more overflow channels, each one a little bit further downstream, to create a reservoir with a capacity of 250,000 tonnes of water."