Winnipeg was put on alert for a “surge” of water as workers cleared an ice jam from an Assiniboine River diversion channel that the province said was operating “at or near maximum capacity.”īut in St. Provincial officials in Manitoba and Saskatchewan said colder weather was slowing the spring melt and in some areas the floodwaters were receding, although water levels weren’t expected to peak until sometime between April 25 and 29. The reserve’s emergency centre employs 450 people, most of them sandbaggers, who have so far made nearly 160,000 sandbags for 32 homes using what the band said was a “state of the art” sandbagging machine that can produce 4,000 bags an hour. The annual flooding represents a major headache, but also a significant source of work for the 7,000 residents of Peguis First Nation, where more than 500 people had to be evacuated to Winnipeg and Gimli. Water covers unprecedented area of Manitoba: officials
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