Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 26 Friday, June 29, 2012
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LACHLAN LABERE/MARKET NEWS
#Vehicles lay embedded in debris in Two Mile after being picked up and carried in a torrent Saturday, June 23, when Sicamous Creek burst its bank.
Lake levels peak, residents return Flooding: Clean up efforts underway for massive damage in Sicamous area. By Lachlan Labere and Barb Brouwer MARKET NEWS STAFF
While water levels will remain high over the next few days, Shuswap and Mara lakes have peaked and are expected to decline without further increases. David Campbell of the BC River Forecast Centre says the lake peaked overnight Tuesday at 349.4 metres, higher than the 1997 level
but well below the 349.66 metre level of 1972. “Shuswap River has been dropping,” he said on a Wednesday afternoon conference call following an update from warning preparedness meteorologist Doug Lundquist. “We’re expecting the lakes to hold and with the favourable weather forecast..., we are going to see a decline over the next few days.” Evacuees from the Two Mile
area finally had an opportunity to head home Tuesday evening, three days after Sicamous Creek blew its banks and came crashing down on the subdivision and neighbouring houseboat operation. Late Tuesday afternoon, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Shuswap Emergency Program rescinded the mandatory evacuation order for parts of Two Mile, including properties on the south side of Cartier Road, Graham
Road and Montcalm Crescent, Tecumseh Road, Wolfe Road and Sicamous Creek Frontage Road. Earlier Tuesday, the mandatory evacuation order was rescinded for Swansea Point, which was hit with a similar debris flow from Hummingbird Creek. Both areas were still on evacuation alert at press time.
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