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![Vicarage Alley during the big flood on the 28th of September, 1917.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_32.jpg?itok=2PMtuty2)
![Vosso between Evangervatnet and Bolstadfjorden.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_34.jpg?itok=OZVJPGrh)
The Vosso river network
The Vosso is Hordaland's main artery, she has never run more richly than in our times, and no other river in western Norway carries so much water. The increase in the amount of water comes mainly from hydropower development, due to the transfer of water from other water systems. Climate change can also be a reason that the Vosso carries more water than before.
![Rekvesøyane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_23.jpg?itok=AaNmW0ie)
Rekvesøyane
The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets periodically flooded, especially during snow melt and after periods of much rain.
![Pump house for the Vossevangen water works.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_460.jpg?itok=rrup6P_h)
![Lønaøyane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_45.jpg?itok=2ZdPPcna)
Lønaøyane
The Strandaelvi river is forever protected from the development of hydropower. The Lønaøyane islands – which comprise the delta furthest north in Lake Lønavatnet - are a part of this water system. In 1995 the level of protection for the Lønaøyne islands was strengthened to that of a nature preserve because of the rich birdlife in this wetland.
![The mills at Rekve around 1890.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_344-3.jpg?itok=92wbiZTr)
Rekvemylna
If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in his old rural mill. But some years ago he would wish you welcome, friendly and hospitable, and show you around his mill, which had been his workplace for a generation. As light-footed as a youth he climbed in steep ladders high up into the waterfall, to let the water down on to the waterwheel.
![Fishing in Flagafossen in the 1930s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_31.jpg?itok=hCBKo2eT)
Vosso
There is probably no bigger salmon to be found in the whole wide world than in Vosso. The average size varies from season to season of course, but for many years this fish has had an average weight of over 10 kilograms. Thumping big ones of 30 kg. have been fished from the river, but one must go back to the 1940s for the last salmon of this size last that was caught.