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Fishing Lake Compromise Reached

By Manitoba Government Release February 3, 2011

The governments of Saskatchewan and Manitoba have reached an agreement on Saskatchewan’s flood protection plan for Fishing Lake. Both provinces are facing the potential for severe spring flooding and have worked to ensure that flood peaks in Manitoba will not be increased by release of water from Fishing Lake. The emergency flood protection plan for

News

Report Eyes Reducing River Flows

By Ron Friesen January 27, 2011

Aplan to reduce the flow on the Red River during flood stage is feasible but would come at a huge cost, a yet-to-be-released study says. Reducing peak flows by 20 per cent is doable but the price tag would be at last $1 billion, according to a model developed for the Red River Basin Commission.

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A New Flood Control For An Old Problem

By Ron Friesen March 4, 2010

“There would be minimum disruption.” – HERM MARTENS, R. M. OF MORRIS The Manitoba government has signalled its interest in digging another floodway. Manitoba Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Steve Ashton said last week the province may consider diverting the Morris River to help ease chronic spring flooding of Highway 75 at Morris. That would

Opinion

What Is A 100-Year Flood?

By Linda Leggette December 10, 2009

In the past 40 years, nearly all of those living in the Red River Valley have had them – 100-year floods, that is. And some have experienced flood levels considerably beyond this. The 1969 spring flood at Crookston, Minn. was just slightly less than a 100-year flood. The 1997 flood at Grand Forks, Pembina and

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Floodway Makes Upstream Flooding Worse, Valley Farmers Say

By Ron Friesen June 4, 2009

“We’re a holding pond for Winnipeg.” – LORNE HAMBLIN Thick, gooey mud squishes under Lorne Hamblin’s rubber boots as he slogs through a field which should be sprouting green shoots. Instead, it’s a sea of heavy muck caused by retreating flood water and made worse by an inch of rain the day before. Hamblin stops,

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Spring Floods Among Worst In History

By Ron Friesen April 23, 2009

A vast overland sea stretched across the Red River Valley this week as weary residents hunkered down behind berms and ring dikes to wait out the fourth-worst flood in Manitoba’s history. A lake up to 10 miles wide from the swollen Red River and its tributaries spread over 975 square kilometres, leaving communities and farmyards

Cereals, News

Spring Flood Risk Worsens For Red River Valley

March 19, 2009

Farmers in the Red River Valley are bracing for one of the worst spring floods on record after heavy snow this week. The river runs north from the northern states of North Dakota and Minnesota into the Canadian province of Manitoba. The U. S. National Weather Service upgraded March 13 the flood potential in the

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Tag Archives Flood control

Fishing Lake Compromise Reached

Report Eyes Reducing River Flows

A New Flood Control For An Old Problem

What Is A 100-Year Flood?

Floodway Makes Upstream Flooding Worse, Valley Farmers Say

Spring Floods Among Worst In History

Spring Flood Risk Worsens For Red River Valley

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