Flooded Businesses Advised to Prepare for Next Wave
By 250 News
Water at Lakeland Mills yard on Sunday morning ( photo opinion250staff)
Prince George, B.C. - Businesses hit hard by the flooding of the Nechako are being advised to make the best of the time they have while the river levels are low.
Spokesman for the business group, David Jewesson, says the lower river levels provide an opportunity “I am advising them that this is the time to start a clean up, and do whatever shoring up needs to be done, we don’t know how long this window will be open, and we should be prepared for another flood.”
Jewesson was responding to information from two ice jam experts who, after surveying the river, say this kind of flooding event will continue if there is a cold snap followed by another warm spell. They say the best scenario would be for a melting trend that would also break up the ice in the Fraser River.
The sudden plunge in water level Saturday night ( it dropped to 4 feet below the high water mark of earlier in the day) sent some of the water rushing towards the Fraser, and some of the water crossed over into Lakeland Mills property. Jewesson says the water hasn’t posed any additional problems for Lakeland “The mill has been operating, and will continue to operate. The water that entered the yard is not causing any problem.”
The city spent the weekend setting up gabion dikes around businesses and along River Road, developing an earth berm along the river bank near McAloney Road, and setting up a gabion dike along a stretch of P.G. Pulpmill Road.
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Since the Fraser is not taking the Nechako water fast enough, maybe the city could combine the two disasters , and provide some entertainment too. Get a team of CN people to freight in the explosives and blow a huge hole in the Fraser in front of the Ft George Park. We will need a huge hole, so better budget for a low yield nuclear device.
Why not? The snow removal budget will cover it. We will need to set off a device everyday until the ice melts, as the water will fill in the hole and start the flooding all over again.
The ice chunks that fall on the local houses will just have to be picked up by the residents. If they don't clean up the ice on their roofs and in their yards, charge them with being a crack shack.