With the banks of the Skeena overflowing and Highway 16 submerged in more than a few locations, Highways officials say it could be at least five to six days before they can even assess the state of the roadway that links Prince Rupert and Terrace.
With the Skeena not expected to drop at least until Sunday, Highways officials say the roads will not be passable.
The CBC website featured details of the flooding along the Skeena, as well as the situation in Terrace itself, which seems to be bearing the brunt of the flood situation in the northwest at the moment.
The CBC site also reported that a barge of supplies for the North coast is already en route to Prince Rupert and that forestry planes and helicopters are on standby, ready to airlift food, fuel and medicines into the flood zone.
The Terrace Standard had an update on the flood situation at the east side of Terrace a bit down the road from the Legate Creek mudslide, a plan to build a secondary berm or dike was discarded after officials said that while with good intentions, the idea really wouldn’t provide much relief to the flood situation in that segment of the Skeena River.
The full story on that is provided below.
Dyke plan won't work
The Terrace Standard
10:05:35AM, Jun 07 2007
TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY officials have shelved a plan to drain Skeena River flood waters that blocked Hwy 16 50km east of Terrace.
With the Skeena not expected to drop at least until Sunday, Highways officials say the roads will not be passable.
The CBC website featured details of the flooding along the Skeena, as well as the situation in Terrace itself, which seems to be bearing the brunt of the flood situation in the northwest at the moment.
The CBC site also reported that a barge of supplies for the North coast is already en route to Prince Rupert and that forestry planes and helicopters are on standby, ready to airlift food, fuel and medicines into the flood zone.
The Terrace Standard had an update on the flood situation at the east side of Terrace a bit down the road from the Legate Creek mudslide, a plan to build a secondary berm or dike was discarded after officials said that while with good intentions, the idea really wouldn’t provide much relief to the flood situation in that segment of the Skeena River.
The full story on that is provided below.
Dyke plan won't work
The Terrace Standard
10:05:35AM, Jun 07 2007
TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY officials have shelved a plan to drain Skeena River flood waters that blocked Hwy 16 50km east of Terrace.
They had been considering building a berm or dyke on the river side of the highway to stop more water from pouring across, and then pumping or draining the water from the highway itself.
"It was a good idea but the engineers said it was impractical," says transportation ministry official Don Ramsay.
Part of the problem was having to dump material in the middle of a water course, he added.
"That simply would not have worked. There was no way it could hold back the water," Ramsay said.
The plan was to use material from the massive mudslide that first closed down the highway May 28.
It's close to the flooded area but because that material is wet, the water would have seeped through, said Ramsay.
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