Flood Bulletin #18

Province of Manitoba | News Releases | Flood Bulletin #18

•The number of evacuees from Peguis First Nation is now 622 people. This includes 43 students and 10 staff who are in Gimli to continue their Grade 12 studies.
•Rising Red River levels and loss of safe road access has resulted in the evacuation of 29 people from the RM of Montcalm and 21 people from the RM of Ritchot. There are also 22 people evacuated from a number of communities and rural municipalities because of overland flooding affecting safe road access.
•Closures at the railway crossings at Morris and Emerson will begin tomorrow to protect communities.
•In The Pas, flood protection activities are ongoing. Five pump stations are in 24-hour operation in the Carrot River Valley, just southwest of The Pas. Two Amphibex machines have been staged to break ice on the Saskatchewan River downstream of Ralls Island. The Carrot River, Salt Channel and Pasquia River dikes extend over 73 kilometres in the vicinity of The Pas to the Saskatchewan border to protect over 57,000 hectares of agricultural and residential land in the Carrot River Valley and Pasquia Polder area.
•Approximately 700 provincial staff are currently working on the flood response across southern Manitoba and in the The Pas area. In addition, there are municipal staff, private contractors and non-government agencies such as the Salvation Army, Mennonite Disaster Services and the Red Cross working on flood-fighting efforts throughout the province.