The City of Swift Current has declared a local emergency due to flooding. Jim Jones, the chief administrative officer for the city in southwestern Saskatchewan, told council that it will allow the city to act more easily and acquire and deploy resources if needed. Jones says due to rapid snow melt resulting from unseasonably high […]
The cities of Moose Jaw and Swift Current are seeing some flooding, with the latter declaring a state of emergency. Swift Current Mayor Al Bridal said that they issued a local state of emergency due to high water levels in Swift Current Creek. Those levels are expected to rise more due to the necessary release […]
The Saskatchewan spring run-off forecast does not anticipate any flood related issues this year. Patrick Boyle with the Water Security Agency says there is a wide variation in water run-off potential across the southern grainbelt, ranging from below to above normal runoff. Boyle says much of the southwestern grainbelt will have below normal runoff but […]
Rescue crews waded through flooded streets and used boats Thursday in a scramble to save people trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida and brought torrential rains that continued to fall. The destruction began to come into focus a day after Ian made landfall in Florida as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit to the […]
Saskatchewan Water Securities Agency minister Jeremy Cockrill is reminding municipalities of the annual transition from the Emergency Flood damage reduction program to the flood damage reduction program for the remainder of the fiscal year. The transition moves from the emergency focus toward long-term flood mitigation projects. Applications from municipalities will be accepted until September […]
The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so far this month, mostly in the west central and southwest regios. In eastern areas, he says harvest is at lest seven to ten days away […]
The latest Saskatchewan crop report says there was general rain across the grainbelt this week but more will be needed in some areas. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says some eastern areas had localized flooding but western regions will need more moisture. He says areas with the highest rainfall include Spiritwood with 86 […]
The Water Security Agency has invested almost 600 thousand dollars in new weather and soil monitoring stations in a dozen locations across the province. The new locations fill areas where gaps in data gathering networks exist. The new stations are located near Arcola, Candiac, Radville, Milestone, Francis, Quinton, Holdfast, Hazenmore, Mankota, Climax, Klintonel and Shaunavon. […]
A whole lot of rain is causing more than a few headaches around Manitou Beach. The community north of Regina was hit with a deluge of rain, that has caused flooding, and damaged homes an businesses. Some people living in the area were saying several inches of rain fell in a very short period of […]
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency is launching the Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program for 2022. The plan is to help Saskatchewan communities respond to the challenge of possible flooding. The program was set up in 2011 to help with emergency flood damage protection measures for communities, rural municipalities, businesses, rural yard sites and cottages […]
