Items tagged: flooding

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Salki on Storage

April 15, 2012 - 4:12 pm

The Water Canada team spent last week in Banff at the fifth annual Water Technologies Symposium. Thursday's keynote speaker, Lake Winnipeg Foundation's Alex Salki, took some time to chat with me about Manitoba's developing surface water strategy. We also chatted about one of the possible solutions to...

Categories: Blog

Know Your Well

May 6, 2011 - 10:49 am

For Saskatchewan , spring runoff season presents a huge risk for private well contamination, especially considering the province’s high levels of arsenic, selenium, and uranium. At the height of this year’s flood crisis in the Prairies, Terry Hanley, director of science, information, and monitoring...

Categories: Features

The Flood from Above

April 20, 2011 - 12:55 pm

Today Vicki Burns posted this North Dakota National Guard aerial video of the major flooding occurring along the Red River. We see this devastation annually in Canada's Prairie region, but Burns says that this year's event is being called Manitoba's second-worst flood in 150 years—30 municipalities...

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Manitoba Funds Flood Protection Study

April 8, 2011 - 3:22 pm

The Manitoba government has set aside a total of $740,000 to conduct feasibility studies for future permanent, community flood-protection dikes in 11 municipalities for consideration, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced yesterday. “The value of community ring dikes in the Red...

Categories: News, Western Canada

Alberta Funds Flooding Recovery

July 8, 2010 - 6:28 am

Two new provincial disaster recovery programs totaling $203.5-million will help citizens and municipalities in southern Alberta recover from recent flooding and severe weather. “These storms had a devastating impact on residents, businesses and municipalities and this funding will help them...