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Major damage on shoreline By John Cairns Staff Reporter
It is an unprecedented situation at Jackfish Lake. The Resort Village of Cochin has seen extensive damage due to ice from the lake being pushed up onto the shoreline and into people’s property across the village. The damage is “significant and extensive,” said Mayor Harvey Walker of the Resort Village of Co-
chin Tuesday. Walker said there is damage and destruction to decks, boat lifts, outbuildings and also to residences being pushed off their foundations. The shoreline — meaning the sand, dirt and rock along the shore — has in some spots been pushed up as high as seven or eight feet. Walker says that for the first time in the memory of anyone he’s been able to talk to that the ice cap on
Here is a look at the shoreline of Jackfish Lake along Hunt’s Cove in Cochin, which has seen some major damage in recent weeks due to ice pushed up on the shoreline. Photo by John Cairns
the lake has spread horizontally, pushing ice onto the west shore of the village. Usually in a normal year, once the weather warms up the ice expands by creating an ice ridge or ice jack out on the lake, with the ice shoved up vertically. But because of the high water level over last summer, and extensive severe winds from the west, the “shoreline and the lake bottom near the shore were eroded, resulting in water being deeper at the shoreline than in normal years.” In a normal year, the shoreline would be shallow and the ice would form and stick to the bottom of the lake. But this year, there was “water left under the ice after the ice cap was formed along the edge of the lake, so when the weather got warm, rather than relieving the pressure vertically it relieved the pressure horizontally.” The result is ice being shoved up onto the shoreline. There is also concern Continued on Page 3
Ben Christensen and his quilt headed out Saturday, his last day of work at Bill and Don’s Men’s Wear in North Battleford. After more than 45 years with the store, Christensen has retired. He bought in as a partner in 1980 when coowner Bill Wheeldon retired. The quilt is made of all his favourite ties and had been on display at the store, but it’s gone home with him now. See the story inside. Photo submitted
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