Rotten Gut River Explained

Rotten Gut River
Source1 Coordinates:18.1789°N -77.6068°W
Mouth Location:Confluence with the One Eye River[1]
Mouth Coordinates:18.1755°N -77.6264°W
Subdivision Type1:Country
Length:2.9miles[2]
Source1 Elevation:About 900feet
Mouth Elevation:About 700feet

The Rotten Gut River is a short river in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica and a tributary of the One Eye River.

Course

The Rotten Gut River rises to the south-west of Comfort Hall, a small village, and flows south, then west then north in a large loop through the hamlet of Dick or Duck Pond, which brings it back to the same latitude it started from before heading generally north-west to its confluence with the One Eye River.

The Wording in Finchman 1998 implies that the section of the One Eye River from its confluence with the Rotten Gut River to the Wallingford Sink is sometimes (wrongly) called Rotten Gut River.[3]

Infrastructure

This being a short river there is very little infrastructure, just two road bridges:

It is perhaps worth noting that the river is significant enough to cause the railway to follow just to the south of it as it makes its large loop to the south through Dick or Duck Pond hamlet.

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Notes and References

  1. UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica sheet D, 1959.
  2. [Wikimapia]
  3. Book: Fincham, Alan G. Jamaica Underground: The Caves, Sinkholes and Underground Rivers of the Island. University of the West Indies Press. Kingston, Jamaica. 1998-03-31. 2nd. 978-976-640-036-1. 37.
  4. http://wikimapia.org/14102795/Road-bridge-over-Rotten-Gut-River Wikimapia
  5. Web site: Road bridge over Rotten Gut River. 18 October 2014.