City Closes Portion of Heritage Trail
Thursday, December 15, 2016 @ 10:11 AM
Sign tells the story – photo courtesy City of Prince George
Prince George, B.C.- With ice build up on the Nechako River, water is now very close to the top of the riverbank.
The trail, between the Cameron Street bridge and the Kiwanis park is now closed and will remain so until the threat of flooding is over
The Nechako River has been backing up as ice jams at the confluence with the Fraser. The flow at Isle Pierre has been measured at about 200 cubic metres per second, which, when combined with the cold temperatures, poses a potential threat of flooding.
Water has already been observed pooling on some of the trails within Cottonwood Island Park.
Comments
Maybe PG city should have done something about this 10 years ago.
Yes,
I know,
I am sorry,
that would make sense.
They did. River road was raised. Maybe if we all ask the Fraser river nicely, it will let the Nechako river share its path.
The last big ice jam was in dec 2008. I wonder what the temprature like in December 2008. What was the rivers flow in dec 2008
Seems to me there was water being released from the spillway at Kenny Dam in 2008 is this also happening now.??? If so perhaps we should stop for a while until the flooding subsides.
In any event this situation will not be resolved until we get some serious dredging done. If ever there was a **make work project** that would employ people over a long period of time, and come up with some good results, this would be it.
Why are the City/Province/Feds dragging their feet on this issue.
Well, now they are being “politically correct” with the fish!
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