Posted in Emergency Management, Flooding, Regional News on January 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Update Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR08-014 , on January 22, the City of Prince George announced that due to weather conditions, officials involved in ice-clearing operations are concerned that more frazil ice will flow downstream on the Nechako and join the head of the ice jam, extending the jam and […]
Posted in Emergency Management, Flooding, Regional News on January 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR08-012, on January 20, the City of Prince George announced that the Amphibex amphibious excavator began to break up the ice jam. The unit is expected to operate 24 hours/day starting January 21. Work on the city’s other initiative, a 2.7-kilometre pipeline to bring water from the […]
Posted in Emergency Management, Flooding on January 9th, 2008 No Comments »
CBC and cyberpresse reported that in Quebec rising water levels from melting snow and rain caused flooding and the evacuation of two homes in the Beauce town of Vallée-Jonction on January 8. In Huntingdon, southwest of Montréal, the Trout River overflowed in the town’s Hinchinbrooke sector. Although no homes were flooded, the town is on […]