CALGARY — Every June, many Calgarians who live near the Bow and Elbow rivers start to worry.
Brenda Leeds Binder, who lives near the Elbow River, said a “nervous anticipation” has set in every June since 2013.
“We have the lowest snowpack I’ve ever seen and perhaps the earliest, fastest snowmelt ever recorded in the Rockies,” John Pomeroy, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said in a recent interview. “We have stream flows that peaked six weeks earlier than normal that have now dropped.”Article content
“2013 would have been a drought year except for three days of heavy precipitation at the end of June that caused the flood that year,” Pomeroy said. “What we don’t have right now is the mountain snowpack and that added quite a bit to the flooding in 2013.” In Canmore and Banff, the mountain towns west of Calgary were cut off after floodwaters washed out the Trans-Canada Highway. Dozens of homes were severely damaged along a raging Cougar Creek in Canmore.
About 140 homes in two communities, Beachwood and Wallaceville, were removed and those neighbourhoods have effectively gone back to nature.
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