{"id":195383,"date":"2018-03-13T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=195383"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:23:37","slug":"thats-the-same-roseau-river-part-i-by-arlington-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/thats-the-same-roseau-river-part-i-by-arlington-james\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s The Same Roseau River? (Part I of 3) by Arlington James"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195412\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-195412\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Roseau-River-calm-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Roseau-River-calm-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Roseau-River-calm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Roseau-River-calm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Roseau-River-calm.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roseau River in a calm mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dominica was once referred to as the \u201cLand of Many Rivers\u201d among the smaller Caribbean islands, boasting some 365 \u201crivers\u201d \u2013 and many more during periods of extended, high-intensity rainfall. One of our best known permanent water courses is the Roseau River, one of the island\u2019s longest, and the largest in the Nature Island\u2019s south-western district.<\/p>\n<p>Roseau River usually meanders peacefully and placidly, almost unassumingly, from the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, through the Roseau Valley and \u00a0down to the Caribbean Sea on the island\u2019s South-West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>However, from time to time all attention turns to that river which may have given some of us a scare, destroyed infrastructure or even claimed human lives, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But what do we know, or remember, about the Roseau River?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s the river that bears the same name as Dominica\u2019s capital, Roseau, which was named by the French on account of the large amount of Roseau Reed, a.k.a. Wild Cane and \u201cWozo\u201d (<em>Gynerium sagitatta<\/em>) that grew in association with the river.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that \u201cconnects\u201d the villages\/communities of Laudat, Trafalgar, Wotten Waven and Copt Hall to silver Lake, Bath Estate, Elmshall, Roseau and Pottersville?<\/p>\n<p>That is the same Roseau River that provides habitat for a wide variety of freshwater fish such as freshwater eels or \u201c<em>zandji<\/em>\u201d, mullets, \u201c<em>l\u00f2sh<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>d\u00f2m\u00e9<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>koko<\/em>\u201d, and \u201c<em>m\u00e8y<\/em>\u201d, as well as crayfish, shrimp and crabs.<\/p>\n<p>Yea, that\u2019s the same Roseau River in which, during the \u201c<em>doukou<\/em> season\u201d, fishermen from Roseau and Pottersville would regularly catch \u201c<em>titiwi\u201d<\/em> to be used as bait to fish for \u201c<em>kawang\u201d<\/em>, \u201c<em>makiyo\u201d<\/em> and \u201c<em>kilouw\u201d<\/em> (jacks) from their \u201c<em>Bwa Flo<\/em>\u201d fishing rafts or \u201c<em>pwi-pwi<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195385\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-195385 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3099-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3099-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3099-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_3099-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young men setting bags to catch titiwi near mouth of Roseau River; catch to be used as fishing bait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s the same river whose estuary provides a foraging ground for local and migratory birds such as pelicans, magnificent frigate birds (\u201c<em>sizo<\/em>\u201d), royal terns, several sandpiper species, ruddy turnstone, egrets, herons (\u201c<em>kwaby\u00e9<\/em>\u201d) and the occasional wild duck (blue-winged teal), among other species.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195387\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-195387\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2873-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2873-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2873-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2873-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heron stalking its prey in Roseau River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river which flows from our scenic Freshwater Lake, passing through the dramatic Ti-Tou Gorge, and on which you will find the very popular and touristic twin Trafalgar Falls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195443\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-195443\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P8155255-1-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P8155255-1-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P8155255-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P8155255-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P8155255-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshwater Lake, the \u201cnatural\u201d source of the Roseau River; water from the lake is used for generating hydro-electricity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is that the same Dominican river that is crossed over by so many bridges? Starting from Copt Hall we cross the Palm Grove Bridge at Copt Hall, the Elmshall Bridge (functional until 27<sup>th<\/sup> August 2015), the Bath Estate Bridge, the Bath Road or \u201cStadium\u201d Bridge, the E.C. Loblack Bridge, the \u201cNew\u201d West Bridge which was commissioned in May 2017, and the Dominica-China Friendship Bridge near the Roseau Market.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195391\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-195391\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3103940-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3103940-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3103940-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3103940-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3103940.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roseau River is crossed by several bridges, including the Dominica-China Friendship Bridge. March 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are other bridges over tributaries of the Roseau River at Wotten Waven, Trafalgar and Laudat. Note also that that river was once crossed by the longest suspension bridge (spring bridge) in the OECS; that bridge was located adjacent to the current Bath Estate Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that separates Roseau proper and Elmshall from Pottersville, Bath Estate, Savanne Park and Silver Lake.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that someone, many years ago, decided to call \u201cQueen\u2019s River\u201d\u2026 Of all possible names? But who calls \u201c<em>Layvy\u00e8 Wozo<\/em>\u201d Queen\u2019s River? You?<\/p>\n<p>Yea, that\u2019s the same river that once provided water for crushing sugar cane harvested from plantations in the greater Roseau area (viz. site of the Botanic Gardens and Goodwill) and washing of L. Rose\u2019s limes before crushing, and which today provides water for generating hydro-electricity at Laudat and Trafalgar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195455\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-195455\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tunnel-3-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tunnel-3-642x482.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tunnel-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tunnel-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second entrance of tunnel through which water from the Roseau River was channelled from the \u201cSikwi\u201d area down to a sugar mill at lower Goodwill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river in which many mothers in the Roseau, Pottersville and even Newtown areas did the family laundry, and even \u201cwashed for people\u201d. Many young men from those same communities also did their own laundry in that river.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that once had several popular, natural bathing pools and spots where youths spent hours frolicking, especially during school vacation time: J\u00e8l Bouchouwi, Under Bridge, Anba Fanso, Basen Sikwi, Under Power, Champaign, Silver Lake and Palm Grove.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river in which young children, while their mothers were doing the family laundry, collected \u201c<em>viyo<\/em>\u201d, which they cooked at home and ate as a snack.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that provided many \u201cJan Wozo\u201d and \u201cJan L\u00f2db\u00f2\u201d with water for their morning and evening baths, and young boys from Roseau and neighbouring communities with opportunities for river-tubing from Palm Grove down to near the river mouth.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same river that has given the city of Roseau its character as being the only city among the Caribbean islands with a usually clear, clean river flowing with moderate velocity right across town.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s the same river in which, before the arrival of flush toilets on the island, the \u201cnight soil\u201d of the better-off residents of Roseau and environs would be disposed of, and in which the \u201cpos\u201d and pails of the less fortunate would be emptied and washed clean for the following night\u2019s use.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author:<\/p>\n<div><b>ARLINGTON JAMES was raised in Roseau, Pottersville and Goodwill, and as such the Roseau river\u00a0 became an essential part of his life.\u00a0<\/b><b>Arlington is a retired Forest Officer, and often carries around a camera in order to capture that rare photo-opportunity. Some of the subjects that he has photographed include the &#8220;dry&#8221; and empty Boiling Lake; a Kouwes snake nest; a boa constrictor swallowing an iguana; and the breaking of the Layou River Dam in 1997.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Arlington is the recipient of a national Services Medal of Honour Award, for his work in environmental education and research.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominica was once referred to as the \u201cLand of Many Rivers\u201d among the smaller Caribbean islands, boasting some 365 \u201crivers\u201d \u2013 and many more during periods of extended, high-intensity rainfall. 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