Nechako Up One Foot

Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:37 AM

Crews install gabion dikes on river road (click on photo to see crews working on compressing dirt into the dikes)

Prince George, B.C. - The Nechako river has risen again overnight. Twice overnight, observers noted significant movement in the ice jam, and at those times, the water levels rose, then fell about two feet.

Today, the level of the river is one foot higher than it was yesterday, and the ice jam has doubled from it’s 2 km length of earlier in the week to 4 km.

Emergency officials will be meeting with the Strata Council of the Delhaven condominium complex to talk about possibly installing some gabion dikes to even up the property profile. Even with the dikes though, residents will be expected to see ground water seepage into their basements.

The River breached the first line of gabion dikes behind TDB Forestry, which is east of the Brink Forest Products operation on River Road. However, the breach did not create any major new impacts. There is a second line of dikes along that area.

Today, crews will start building an earth berm on the west side of the John Hart Bridge, extending it past the Pacific Western Brewing Plant, and Cedars Christian School.

The costs to the City for dealing with the flood are now pegged at $738 thousand dollars, and those funds will be reimbursed by the Province.

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Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:37 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Harbinger on December 22 2007 1:58 PM

Thanks fer the news in the "understandable scale".

Posted by: lunarbase on December 22 2007 5:00 PM

Has anyone tried to correlate these level flu cations with changes in water discharged from Alcan ?

Posted by: owl on December 22 2007 7:23 PM

I would assume that the level fluctuations are as a direct result of the ice dam movement. Each time it moves, old opening are closed partially or completely and new openings have to be found by the water. If the new openings are higher than the old, then the water level will obviously rise. So, with every small shift or with every erosion of a narrow opening into a wider and lower one, the water level will drop.

I assume that Alcan water release amount has very little to do with the changes we are seeing at this time.

Posted by: Eagleone on December 23 2007 10:14 AM

The river is up again it looks like.

I figure with all the money going into the berm being built along the north side of the river... why not make it part of a river trail system. It has excellent views and would make a fantastic circle tour for people jogging from the south side of the river via the two bridges. The berm being built is about ten feet wide at least along the top and if covered with a layer of pavement it could be a popular place to exercise in a safe open area. It would create a lot of possibilities for community trail systems at the very minimum.