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Ice Jam Now 7 km Long, Costs Grow Too

By 250 News

Friday, December 28, 2007 02:39 PM

    

Prince George, B.C. - The Nechako River ice jam is now 7 kilometres long, the longest it has been in the past two weeks.

City of Prince George Information Officer Don Schaffer says while gabion diking and sand bagging have reduced the impact of rising waters, there are still some areas experiencing percolation issues and the Delhaven Condominium complex (shown in photo at right, ) is one of those areas.

Schaffer says there is no immediate plan to ask the residents of Delhaven to leave their homes, however the complex remains on evacuation alert.

While Ministry of Forestry staff and inmates from the Prince George Corrections Centre are available to fill sandbags, City staff are relying on creative shifting to get a break from the long hours of dealing with the jam and the resulting floods.

Staff continue to monitor river levels on a 24 hour basis.

The costs associated with dealing with the ice jam and flooding are approaching $1 million dollars as the latest estimate is $965 thousand dollars.  That figures does not include the estimate of damage to homes and businesses.


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Comments

Comment Posted by: Harbinger on December 28 2007 4:29 PM
Dredge?
Comment Posted by: Palopu on December 28 2007 5:37 PM
Yes Dredge.
Comment Posted by: zoopdingle on December 28 2007 5:58 PM
Don't buy a house on a floodplain?

(Aside: I'd pay cash to see any one from the "Ministry of Forestry" doing anything remotely resembling manual labour such as filling sandbags. They'd probably demand double time for "helping".)
Comment Posted by: owl on December 28 2007 10:50 PM
Most definitely dredge. Get Klein to take his gravel out at the confluence of the rivers the way he used to.
Comment Posted by: owl on December 28 2007 10:51 PM
Most definitely dredge. Get Klein to take his gravel out at the confluence of the rivers the way he used to.
Comment Posted by: thereasonableman on December 29 2007 3:54 AM
Inmates are "available" to fill sandbags ?

How about they go fill sandbags whether we need them or not ?