Province Will Provide Compensation To Flood Victims

Friday, December 14, 2007 01:51 PM

Crews start unloading gabion dikes on the north side of the Nechako River.

Public Safety and Solicitor General John Les, has just announced that the province is assisting the City of Prince George with their flooding problems by providing a large number of Gabian Dikes to prevent flooding.

Les said in and interview with Opinion250 that he is very aware of the flooding that it going on in this city but "As in every case the city takes the lead , but we will do everything we can to assist them. While we haven’t to this point received anymore requests" Les said," we are there for them as soon as they need us " , and the Gabian Dikes are an example.

Asked about compensation John Les said, “There clearly is going to be a case for compensation, we will move into that mode, but not until we make it past the emergency that we now face."

" I am following the situation every day ", said Les "and our staff have been offered up for any assistance we may be able to offer."

The city has begun installing 3 kilometers of Gabian dikes along River Rd and the Pulp Mill Rd . In the case of River Rd they are trying to prevent the river from cutting a new course along River Rd.

In addition the city has built a snow dike around the water pumping station near the Cameron St Bridge to try and prevent river water from entering the system.

At the same time the City has announced that the ice Jam is now 6 Kilometers long.

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Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 01:51 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: beerboy on December 14 2007 2:32 PM

Just a suggestion ! tREAT THE PROBLEM NOT THE RESULT. Alcan has known the water levels were high for a long time. We have all seen the high river level for at least 6-8 months. After all the debris coming down the river , Maybe some sort of clean-up or dreging may have helped? (hind sight).

Posted by: giterdun on December 14 2007 3:30 PM

REAL SMART.. THE HORSE IS GONE--CLOSE THE GATE.

Posted by: beerboy on December 14 2007 4:24 PM

My point is ! If there was some way , of not putting so much water down the river ,Ie through the turbines . Maybe this flooding could have been lessened. Unfortunately you (giterdun) would rather complain about what is ,instead of tring to figure a way of reducing the problem now and possibly in the future . I'm not sure of the reason the powerlines out of Kemano are still down . Maybe they are waiting for the price of Aluminium to go down.

Posted by: vocer on December 14 2007 4:45 PM

THE PROVINCE WILL COMPENSATE THE VICTIMS.....MEANING US. ALCAN SHOULD BE COMPENSATING THIS NOT US.

Posted by: Palopu on December 14 2007 6:39 PM

Alcan has one turbine down, and 7 operating at 87% capacity. Which in effect means 2 turbines down. They have repaired the lines that were previously down this spring. The are using the electricity generated to produce ingots, they are selling some to hydro, and selling some to Powerex (Sale arm of Hydro)to sell to the good old USA. This has all been previously reported by 250.

The water in the Kenny Dam is fairly close to capacity, and because they cannot put anymore water through the turbines, they have to release it into the Nechako. There are no other options at this time that I am aware of, so get used to the idea.

If they did not release this water it would come over the top of the dam in any event. The amount of flooding we are experiencing now, pales in comparison to what would happen if that dam broke loose. You could kiss a large portion of Prince George good bye.

Posted by: slider71 on December 14 2007 10:31 PM

Don't most dams have some sort of spillway on the turbine side to control water levels?

Posted by: buddy on December 15 2007 7:45 AM

Why is it that Alcan seems to be the only dam controller that has to regularly be out of control?