I didn't get to take any photos of the dam at Germasogia overflowing, but this morning being fine and clear we drove to the island's largest dam the Kouris to see what the situation was there. We were amazed to see just how much water was pouring down the slipway and recreating a river that hadn't been in flow for years. We then drove to the far end of the reservoir, stopping on the way to grab a quick shot of the snow on the Troodos Range.
When the dam was constructed in the 1980s the village of Alassa was relocated from the valley floor to higher ground. The village church was on fairly high ground at the edge of the village but still suffered some flooding from time to time. The last time the dam overflowed I got a photo of the top of the dome with the cross, all that was left above water. Much of the church has collapsed over the intervening years but the tower with the cross atop has survived so far and today I got a similar shot. A small, largely symbolic, church has been built above the high water level and overlooking the old one.
On our way home we stopped in the next village to ours, Erimi, to watch the river passing beneath the road bridge there, a sight we have not seen for many years, certainly not since the pre-Dam years of the 1960s and 70s. In my first winter in Cyprus, 1967, the next bridge along, Queen's Bridge on the M1 in the Sovereign Base Area, was washed away by a flash flood. The Royal Engineers had to construct a Bailey Bridge to carry the traffic until the river subsided enough in the spring/summer for a replacement to be built.