Now that the sun has returned and the snow is starting to melt, thoughts may be turning to summer flooding.
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Now that the sun has returned and the snow is starting to melt, thoughts may be turning to summer flooding.
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Premier Alison Redford’s government opened the fall sitting of the Alberta legislature by introducing a bill to mitigate damage from floods like the one that ravaged parts of southern Alberta this summer.
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While the province of Alberta released the first proposals for widespread flood mitigation earlier this month, the Town of High River has been designing its own strategies to help protect the town from future events.
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The cost of a berm system throughout Medicine Hat to hold back a flood of 1995 proportions could cost at least $22 million to build today, based on an engineering study done after record flooding that year, sources told the News this week.
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Likening development in a floodway to “standing with a match beside a bomb,” the mayor of Okotoks says the town’s land-use policies and a proactive approach to flooding helped it avoid major losses last month.
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