Watawala, Kitulgala, Kalugala, Ginigathena, Dick Oya and Kothmalen Gaminie Dissanayake

Roshan Watawala and Kothmale Gaminie Dissanayake belongs to two river branches of the Upcountry Rainforest Range.

They are on two sides of Kitulgala and Ginigathena.

Watawala is bit up the stream.

Downsouth guys of Hambantota and Unawatuna and in the bird zone do not understand the value of the forest for wild beasts including elephants.

The plane glides to Hambantota with Chinese on money pilgrimage,i directly on the bird's migration pathway killing birds for their evening meals, on high ground or skyway.

The Chinese live birds for meals and they are not lovebirds of Budgerigars type.

My intention here is to highlight our ancient water engineers knowledge and stamina.

My geographical investigations tells me that Dick Oya and Hinguru Oya both descended down and joined the  Kelani River before the Kingdom moved to Kandy.

The Victoria Bridge and Randenidala project become a small project when we consider how these guys diverted one branch that joined the Kalani River naturally was intercepted at Ginigathena to join Mahaweli River.

Watawala has the highest rainfall in Ceylon and diverting a river at Ginigathena was a masterpiece of engineering.

They used the Kalugala range to good effect and once the point at which the two river branches joined was blocked, the downhill fall was instantaneous and joining the branch that originated from Maskeli Oya or River was chicken feed of engineering feat.

Before Maskeli Oya project was born the road that leads to our house was inundated,  with even minor rain.

Thanks Gaminie for completing this project which Sirima and NM never considered feasible.

Thanks Roshan for your political updates and you should talk about the Mahaweli Project, one day.

Maps are readily available and Google maps gives a reasonable point to point connection without elevation statistics.

In my book on Ceylon, I did all this including elevation, using my own map drawings and simple inspiration.

It is available at Amazon books.

I am a simple doc with 8th standard knowledge of geography.

We had a six inches of rain on the 15th and only a minor part leading away from our road was under water for four hours.

I counted over 20 thunders and our trip switch went off over 6 of them.

Lucky the earth wire I connected many moons ago was firmly grounded.

Weather gods are working hard to wash away our filth.

It is a welcome intervention when Coranavirus is riding high above the clouds, now in statistical sense.