Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 27 Friday, July 6, 2012
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Caution urged as water recedes By Barb Brouwer MARKET NEWS STAFF
An unfamiliar symbol appeared Wednesday on Environment Canada’s Internet weather forecast page for the Shuswap. It is the sun. And after near-record rainfall in June, the future is looking brighter – and hotter. While heat will speed up high-altitude snowpack melt, David Campbell of the BC River Forecast Centre says mid-level snowpacks are gone
and he expects upper level packs, which are only 40 per cent of their former size, to melt without causing more flooding in Shuswap River. The dry sunny weather predicted for the next several days will see water levels steadily dropping. Shuswap Lake will remain on flood watch until the water level drops by another 15 to 20 centimetres, something Campbell believes will happen this weekend, or early next week. City of Salmon public works manager John Rosenberg says he figures
the lake has dropped about six inch- first place. es and guesses it will drop by the “I think a lot of stuff was sitting on same amount over the weekend. shore a metre or metre and a half “By Monday, we may be down higher than normal water levels,” about a foot,” he says. “Evaporation said Rosenberg. One victim of wave action was the is gonna make up for the snow melt large, carved salmon that sat on the if we any kind of heat.” Rosenberg says staff have already breakwater in Salmon Arm Bay and begun the long, slow process of was knocked off its perch. “It was in Monday’s photos and cleaning up the debris the water was found floating near the marina leaves behind. Canoe Beach is littered with de- Tuesday morning,” Rosenberg says, bris, brought into shore by the same wave action that took normally out- See Salmon on page 2 of reach items out into the lake in the
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