Fraser River Rising

Friday, April 27, 2007 04:02 AM

The Fraser River continues to rise

The Fraser River continues to rise, hitting the 7 metre "action point" yesterday.

That was the mark emergency personnell said they would use to revist their plans. Chief Fire Prevention Officer Kelly Gilday says when the river hit that mark a conference call was ordered and the sitaution reassessed. "We continue to provide information to businesses along River Road and we are monitoring the weather conditions" says Gilday.

Gilday says they continue to monitor the levels "Our next action point is 8 metres, and if the river reaches that mark we will reassess our situation."

Gilday says the weather is a key factor now. " We continue to monitor the weather conditions and we should have a 5-7 day lead time before the Fraser comes up. We have increased our site inspections and the Emergency Operations Centre Managers are well aware of the situation."

The critical flood mark for Prince George is 9.2 metres.

Earlier this week the Regional District of Fraser Fort George was advertising flood information, reminding those in low lying areas to take some precautions such as moving items to higher ground and having 72 hours of provisions ready, preparing an evacuation plan and checking the link to the Provincial Emergency Preparedness site ( www.pep.bc.ca) . Thursday, the Ministry of Agriculture issued an advisory on making preparations to handle livestock in the event of flooding.

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Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 04:02 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: jonnypg on April 27 2007 4:36 AM

Does every spring!

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 27 2007 7:11 AM

Remember when the Cache used to flood every year? Ice chunks floating in the street.

Posted by: Mcfly on April 27 2007 8:09 AM

And still with hundreds of years worth of data showing that rivers flood their banks regularly, people still build right next to them.

Much like all the fancy homes along the Nechako river....they are all newer homes, so it was not like they did not realize the potential to flood was there....yet they built them anyways.

So its a bit hard to feel sorry for them when their basement is full of water, and the patio set floats away.

Posted by: ICEMAN on April 27 2007 12:37 PM

year after year, we flood

Posted by: Chadermando on April 27 2007 5:19 PM

I went for a drive this week looking at headwater levels and I've never seen them that high before. The Chilako especially is over its banks in a big way right back to hits source. Even the feeder streams are bursting their banks right now.

Posted by: heidi1555 on April 27 2007 7:27 PM

The only good thing about all this water is McMillan creek actually has enough water in it for the fish to swim through to the river. Last year it was almost dry.

Posted by: Chadermando on April 27 2007 11:46 PM

Salmon Valley is high. Another foot or so and the Salmon Valley campground is under water. They still have the open sign out front though.

When I was out at Salmon Valley today I noticed someone is newly trying to block all access to the south side of the river west of the highway. Looks like he's setting up a unibomber shed right in front of the government waste bin, which he is also claiming. A lot of people that use Salmon Valley as a close to town place to take a dip are going to be pissed this summer when they come across that. The guy is basically using his uni-bomber shed, some ribbon and a private property sign to block access and claim a good 10km of up stream camp sites and tubbing launch spots.

Posted by: heidi1555 on April 28 2007 6:43 AM

hmmm weird. Hopefully to pass his days he will pick up all the broken beer bottles. If I see any while i'm there I pick them up. I'm curious now to see how Salmon river looks.

Posted by: heidi1555 on April 28 2007 6:44 AM

the campsite has new owners doesnt it Chad?

Posted by: Chadermando on April 28 2007 11:12 PM

It was for sale last year. I'm not sure if it turned hands or not. I agree about the glass bottles. It should be illigal to have glass bottles on any beach in BC. Fine em $500 bucks a bottle IMO.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on April 29 2007 8:42 AM

Salmon Valley area has had a problem for year with parties and broken glass.It would be nice to catch the idiots who do the smashing but that is not likely to happen unfortunately!
A fine of 500 bucks a bottle seems fair.......