Floodwater, fresh rains destroy homes near Rivers
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This article was published 01/07/2020 (1992 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
LAKE WAHTOPANAH – Several homes and cottages have been lost to flood waters overnight at Chimo Beach, including the year-round mobile home residence owned by RM of Riverdale Mayor Todd Gill.
In the past three days since Sunday night’s storm system dropped vast amounts of precipitation on a large swath of western Manitoba, communities have been battling rising flood waters upstream from the town of Rivers.
“Something went wrong here,” one flooded-out homeowner told the Sun. “We’ve had storms in the past, and mist would hit our window, but nothing like this.”
Chimo Beach is located about three kilometres east of the town of Rivers along the southeast side of Lake Wahtopanah.
Significant rainfall on Tuesday night has added to regional woes.
Earlier this week, severe flooding along the Little Saskatchewan prompted a few logs to be taken out of the dam at Minnedosa to help release some of the excess water in the lake and relieve pressure on the dam. The dam on the Little Saskatchewan River at Rapid City gave out on Monday due to the high water.
Locals estimate that about two inches (roughly five centimetres) fell near Rivers as the storm system passed on Tuesday night. That rainfall, combined with flooding coming from upstream along the Little Saskatchewan River which flows into Lake Wahtopanah, has forced the water in the lake to rise substantially, advance several metres beyond the regular shore line, and engulf a number of residences.
The Brandon Sun has a team in the region covering the flood. We will have a full report in Thursday’s paper.
–The Brandon Sun