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; TERRACE _ The final cost of
tepairing area highways follow-
dng recent floods could run as

_ high as $500,000 in the arca,
days highways district- manager
fokn Newhouse... _

2 Torrential, rains ‘were: felt: ‘th

four feet deep in places « on the
Greenville Road, Even when the

could not be reopened: because

themselves cut off when ‘the: | ly.
‘fond was closed Thursday, Oct.

Newhouse said at. the. heigh
the flooding. water had. _been

water subsided, the: road still

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EMERGENCY CREWS, above, load food into helicopters for last
* week's airlift to Greenville, The Nass Valley village was cut off for
nearly nine days by flooding of the road there. At right, Dutch Valiey
residents slog through the floodwaters after abandoning vehicles to
the rising WAGE. Be os Lutes

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When the \ water ‘went back .

‘down the bridges simply settled:
on top of the debris. That left
them sitting three feet above the
level of the road, he said. --

_ Highways. stab had to Lift
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“TERRACE - ~ - Flooding’ ‘here
- gould have beer a lot worse; say
_- emergency program officials...
“Given: the . amoun of
* precipitation: that ame‘ ‘doy
were extremely fortunate’ more
didn’t happen,”’ said Provincial
. Emergency Program’ ‘zone
manager Rod Salem.
_ + Duteh. Valley,” ‘the:

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Feaction to the heavy runoff in-
to Kalum Lake, Salem’ explain-
ed. More. ain fell there, - and

water, but only for a couple of

days in each case, were the

. Aiyansh/Canyon Clty - access

road and the Nisga’a Highway

. from Terrace tothe Nass

Valley, One section of the lat-
ter, near Lava Lake, had been.

n under 3-4ft, of waler.at one:
; time,

"Although Hwy, 37 between
Terrace and Kitimat had been

_ (closed for less than a day,

Newhouse said extensive and
expensive work will be required

> area escaped worst: of it .

highways crews finally sot the,
road reopened Friday...

warmer weather shot the freez-
ing level from 6,000 feet -up to

10,000 feet, melting some of the .

new snow in the high country,

Lyle Kennedy's house ‘was.

one of the Dutch Valley homes
flooded Tuesday when the.river
spilled its banks and cut a new

« . course. through the yards of

residents.
H's a real mess,” he says,

“‘Byerything was floating

around. And now the rugs need

‘to be ripped up and the floor-
boards are starting to buckle.” -

Kennedy’s insurance com-
pany won’t cover the damage,

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on 1 that road,

The Oct.: 10 closure. came:

when ‘erosion by the Kitimat:
River took away half the width:
of the road along a. 120m -sec-~* ‘future.
tidn approximately 4kims South a

of the Kitimat River bridge...
“However, he said much of th

highway will be spent on rip-
rapping two other 20m sections
where the river ate away all land

the road.’

30 he says he will be making a
claim with the Provincial
Emergency Program in the
-hopes of. covering some of the
costs.

The crawlspace” beneath his
house was flooded toa three-
foot depth, and a freezer full of

meat was overturned and ruin- |
ed. ,

The water level came very
clase to homes at Lakelse Lake,
but Salem said flooding wasn’t
severe there,

Greenville was ‘cutoff by
flooding for nearly 9 days until
TERRACE — Work carried out
over the weekend has got the ci-
ty’s Deep Creék water supply
back on line, but the solution is
oniy temporary, .

Engineering director Stew
Christensen said the Deep Creek
supply was knocked out when
the runoff from recent heavy
rains destroyed the reservoir
there,

The swollen creek ate away
all the earth inside a log crib
that formed ithe. dam.

All that was left was the log
skeleton of the dam with the
creek flowing underneath those
logs.

Christensen said city crews

“spent the weekend laying a-
15-inch line from-the water sup- ~
ply system intake (located: “im
what | was the reservoir) to a

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More: Tip-rap would also: be!

: requited around the supports of,

five bridges : on Hwy. 16 Bast to:
replace | the material swept away;
in the floods. -

Newhouse said the total cost:

. of carrying: out all neces
~ between its original course and sary

repairs in the- region was!
estimated at $400,000-$500, 000.

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The © ‘Provincial “Emergency:
Program flew in enough food to"

last, 1,000: people two days. last,

week,

A boil water advisory had to!
be issued for rural’ residents,-
Salem added, because the rise in:
the water table can effectively:
flush septic tanks and pollute:
nearby wells.° It was removed
Oct. 18.

Numerous volunteers helped!
out with: the gmereency:
response, Salem said

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point upstream which was .the
same elevation as the old. dam
spillway.

However, although that
allowed the city to resume draw-
ing its water from Deep Creek,
he emphasized the solution was’
only a ‘‘very, very temporary’’
one.

' Without a dam and therefore.

a reservoir, he pointed out’

January's traditionally low '
water levels could create water
supply problems.

As fora more permanent

-solution, Christensen said there

were several options. Those in-
cluded replacing the present
dam with a concrete structure,

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building a new dam at a dif-~

ferent spot’ on. the
drawing some: ‘of ea
from wells.

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