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Manitoba
Darren Bernhardt - CBC News
Posted: April 30, 2022
Three men boat in an unidentified residential area south of Winnipeg during the 1997 flood. (Government of Manitoba)
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As Manitobans build sandbag walls and watch riverbanks vanish under ever-swelling water levels, ghosts of the 1997 flood of the century have returned exactly 25 years later.
But this time around, experts say the province is on more solid ground.
"No doubt there would still be a lot of work associated with it. But there's no question we are in a better position than we were in '97," said Russ Andrushuk, assistant deputy minister for Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure.
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The same confidence is expressed by University of Manitoba civil engineering Prof. Jay Doering, an expert in hydrology who worked with the Manitoba Floodway Authority during the 1997 deluge and later on the floodway expansion committee.
"If a 1997 flood were to occur again, I wouldn't say that we wouldn't break a sweat, but I think we could take it and there really wouldn't be any reason for significant concern," he said.
This spring could test that theory. Communities along the Red River Valley are being told a major-level flood is almost a certainty.
On Friday, provincial flood forecasters said the coming flood could approach the volume of the 2009 flood, which was the highest since '97.
Manitoba has been pounded by one snowiest winters on record and by four significant precipitation systems in April alone. The third Colorado low in as many weeks is headed into the province this weekend, bringing 30-80 millimetres of rain to southern Manitoba.
'We could take it': Manitoba better braced to face a 1997-level flood, experts say
'I wouldn't say that we wouldn't break a sweat, but I think we could take it'
Darren Bernhardt - CBC News
Posted: April 30, 2022
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As Manitobans build sandbag walls and watch riverbanks vanish under ever-swelling water levels, ghosts of the 1997 flood of the century have returned exactly 25 years later.
But this time around, experts say the province is on more solid ground.
"No doubt there would still be a lot of work associated with it. But there's no question we are in a better position than we were in '97," said Russ Andrushuk, assistant deputy minister for Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure.
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The same confidence is expressed by University of Manitoba civil engineering Prof. Jay Doering, an expert in hydrology who worked with the Manitoba Floodway Authority during the 1997 deluge and later on the floodway expansion committee.
"If a 1997 flood were to occur again, I wouldn't say that we wouldn't break a sweat, but I think we could take it and there really wouldn't be any reason for significant concern," he said.
This spring could test that theory. Communities along the Red River Valley are being told a major-level flood is almost a certainty.
On Friday, provincial flood forecasters said the coming flood could approach the volume of the 2009 flood, which was the highest since '97.
Manitoba has been pounded by one snowiest winters on record and by four significant precipitation systems in April alone. The third Colorado low in as many weeks is headed into the province this weekend, bringing 30-80 millimetres of rain to southern Manitoba.
