Cottonwood Island Park Closed
Monday, June 4, 2012 @ 12:20 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The City has closed Cottonwood Island Park and the Heritage River Trails from the Cameron Street Bridge to Fort George Park due to rising river water levels.
This closure will remain in place until further notice.
The Fraser River level has recededslightly, with it’s most recent peak on the weekend. The five day forecast suggests it will slip to 7.482 metres. The flood mark is 9 metres.
As for the Nechako River, data from Isle Pierre indicates it has risen slightly to 4.145 metres.
The City of Prince George has activated its emergency operations centre to level 1, which is basically a monitoring stage.
(Below, back channel of the Nechako River near the east end of Cottonwood Island Park near capacity)
Comments
The water is not any higher now than it was all last week, so why the closure???
The water is not any higher now than it was all last week, so why the closure???
Maybe he “flooding” will wash most of the doggy poop away. “Out of sight out of mind”. And off of shoes!
They are forecasting a bunch of rain in the next couple days, should be interesting to see what happens.
Why the closure now rather than last week ….
they had to have a meeting first ….
then a decision …..
then a confirmation by a senior person that the decision is the right one ….
then they had to get a round tuit …. :-)
Lots of dog crap in that park. It is a leash park, however seems all the dogs are off leash, running to and fro, and dumping on the walkway.
Bylaw inforcement officers??? Conspicuous by their absence. So whats new???
Geebuzz, Gus, Put a dyke in it will yuh??
That was a good one, wonder if they’ll get
tuit? Better than a blivet any day…..
Sure hate to see what would happen if someone left the barn door open and the horse walked out.
I suspect the closure was announced now to prevent possible mishaps with the pending rainfall the next few days. If we get 40 plus mm as they are calling for, there will be no shortage of water.
ouch
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