The Water Security Agency is warning people along the North Saskatchewan River, that whole lot of water is coming. Heavy Rain on top of snow packs in Alberta will bring flows along the North Saskatchewan River from 280 m3/second to as high as 1200 m3/s. Peak flows are expected to arrive from Alberta on Friday […]
A widespread downpour drenched much of the city last night as part of a thunderstorm that rumbled through. Again. It’s the third time in the last couple of weeks storms have flooded intersections and underpasses, and in some cases, basements. Mike Payne with Restorex Disaster Restoration said it hasn’t just been one area of the […]
Lane Mountney spreads a map over his kitchen table at his farmhouse in southeast Saskatchewan, pointing to yellow and orange arrows slithering across the document. Many of the arrows represent existing channels and ditches, moving across fields and out of wetlands to drain water. The arrows eventually make their way to a creek, causing what […]
Regina’s streets and underpasses have flooded numerous times as thunderstorms have hit the Queen City. Kurtis Doney, the acting Executive Director of Citizen Services with the City of Regina, said from an infrastructure perspective, things have worked how they are supposed to. “City crews are responding to the situation where streets were flooded and may […]
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency is improving its ability to identify flood risk in the province. An over $2-million investment is being made to its Flood Hazard Identification Mapping Program. The money is part of the WSA’s 2023-24 budget. WSA Spokesman Sean Osmar says these improvements will help communities be more prepared for potential flooding. […]
The City of Swift Current has declared a local emergency due to flooding. Jim Jones, the chief administrative officer for the city in southwestern Saskatchewan, told council that it will allow the city to act more easily and acquire and deploy resources if needed. Jones says due to rapid snow melt resulting from unseasonably high […]
The cities of Moose Jaw and Swift Current are seeing some flooding, with the latter declaring a state of emergency. Swift Current Mayor Al Bridal said that they issued a local state of emergency due to high water levels in Swift Current Creek. Those levels are expected to rise more due to the necessary release […]
The Saskatchewan spring run-off forecast does not anticipate any flood related issues this year. Patrick Boyle with the Water Security Agency says there is a wide variation in water run-off potential across the southern grainbelt, ranging from below to above normal runoff. Boyle says much of the southwestern grainbelt will have below normal runoff but […]
