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Old Remo farmer leery flood waters will return By ALEX HAMILTON DIETER BAHR isn’t about to remove any of the sandbags littering bis Old Remo farm — he’s worried the Skeena River will flood again. For now, he’s keeping bis honey bee hives high above the ground on tables and his plants and potted vegetables raised on pallets where they” ll be safe from floodwater. Bahr has good reason to belicve the river will overflow again, especially if sudden hot weather sirikes for two or three days in a row. The mountains surrounding his farm are still covered in snow, so he knows there’s still plenty of runoff waiting to filter down the valley. A week after the flood, Bahr was busy assessing the damage caused by the two feet of water that swallowed up his property. “We had walter up to the rhododendrons —. the water was so high they looked like water lilies floating,’’ he said. Working on two to three hours of sleep, Bahr spends his days making sure his bedding plants and vegetables, which he sells at the farmers’ market, survive, He.said it’s still too early to say whether his tomato plants will recover. It took seven days for the plants to finally dry out. But, already, they are showing signs of rot and many leaves are wilting. **They can only stay wet for so long,’* Bahr explained. In addition to the excessive floodwater, Bahr said his vegetables are having trouble adjusting to the weather. His tomatoes, for example, are two to three weeks behind in growth due to recent cold temperatures. “We still had frost on and off until the beginning of June,” he said. And sudden hot days, such as the one on June 24, con- fuse the plants, he said, since they aren’t given a chance to adjust to the extreme temperature changes. To his dismay, his bedding plants aren’t doing much bet- fer than his vegetables, When B.C. Hydro tumed off his power {its mandatory during a ood) he stayed on his farm to make sure his gen- erator kept running im his two 50-feet long greenhouses so his plants wouldn’t die of cold. But fumes from one generator entered the greenhouse with his plants and caused all the flowers to fall off of his petunias. Like many of his neighbours in Old Remo, Bahr never left his farm during the flood — even when he needed a jet boat to get to his property. “T had to keep everything safe,”’ he said. He also has to be there for his neighbours. “If your neighbours need you more, you drop everything here and go work there,” he said, Bahr has lived in Old Remo since 1955, and he said he’s Bahr has lived in Old Remo since 1955, and he said he’s never seen extreme flooding like this before. never seen extreme flooding like this before. He said the floodwater carried such a current this year that it dragged massive amounts of debris — cement blocks, oil cans, fuel tanks, lumber, pallets, cottonwood trees — onto his land. “You wouldn’t believe the debris inherited here from the whole valley,” Bahr said. It’s taken him four truck loads of dirt to fill in the huge holes in his driveway, which was completely washed out. As for how much damage was done by the water, Babr couldn’t say. “T don’t know yet. I haven’t got time for even filling out a [claim] form,”’ he said, Despite all the damage control he’s had to do and lost in- come from dead vegetables and plants, Bahr said he siil! would never consider moving away from his beloved home on the floodplain. “You can’t farm on a mountain,”’ he said. “And all of us love it down here."’ WHAT A MESS: Old Remo farmer Dieter Bahr exam- ines the debris that floodwater left behind. 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