Prince George Sets Up Portable Dykes to Protect Water System

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Prince George , B.C. -  The City of Prince George is now using gabion dykes to  try and protect the City’s water system.  Utilities Manager, Marko Fornari says the dykes are being used to protect the PW605  pump station from any contamination  as the Nechako River  floods due to an ice jam.

The portable dyking system has been here since the spring freshet flooding, although Fornari says the amount of dyking available is limited because at the end of the threat to Prince George last spring,  much of the portable dyking  was sent to Vanderhoof  or to the lower mainland.

The City is also making sand and sand bags available to anyone wanting the materials to try and protect their homes or businesses from the water which has spilled over the Nechako’s banks because of a 5 kilometre long ice jam.

The City has now closed McAloney Road in the light industrial area on the north side of the River.  They say it will be up to businesses to decide if they will shut down. 

13 homes on either side of the river have been evacuated,  businesses  on the River Road side have  shut down impacting hundreds of employees.  The City says  hydro  was  to be shut off at Winton Global  offices today,  that  company’s planer mill is closed, Brink Forest Products is also down and Lakeland had hoped to  be back to work   this afternoon, but  no one is answering the  phones at their office.   

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