Water Drainage - Sask - Brandon Sun

[newguy]

Not dry here.

[freewheat]

Well, you know what I mean, I hope. But I am not sure you do, if you think drainage is why downstream is wet, after the decade of hellish precipitation in the basin.

[newguy]

The high precipitation the last few years has showed what can happen after 30 years of clearing land filling in and draining low spots.

[stonepicker]

So why does the red river valley flood on a regular basis? Drainage isn't the problem there ( the elevation drop is about 1 foot per mile ) It floods because some years there is just too much snow melt and rain in the spring!

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok I have another problem with this.
How come some of the best ditches designed are build in Manitoba?
Just saying is landscaping ok. But a ditch isn't.
****ing 30 plus inches of rain for most of the last 10 plus years plus heavy snow pack.
So it's mostly bull shit.

[stonepicker]

It's the MB. NDP way, blame someone else for our state of misery.

[jamesb]

We have been in a high rain fall area for some years now. Some are so quick to blame drainage for the problem but cant seem to understand that the un drained land had all full sloughs that run uncontrolled with any rain event. lets get this water moving with controls. The creeks in the southeast have finally stopped running this summer after running year round for many years. Now is the time in the fall to le the water go and create some holding capacity in the traditional low spots. We have seen this low spots encompass huge areas that were always farmed until 2010.

[Oliver88]

Wasn't Manitoba's government talking about building an outlet to send water north which would alleviate their flooding issues?

Or is his just another issue where their provincial government doesn't care about anything outside of Winnipeg.....similar to their Bi-Pole electrical grid scandal?

[stonepicker]

Yes i think there's something to that, the interlake ( between lake mb. and lake wpg.) have had big problems, i haven't checked it out though. 25 miles west of me there are farmers who have lost 100's of acres to white water lake ( it just keeps getting bigger ) and crop ins. no longer covers those acres because their not considered arable acres anymore.

[stonepicker]

They did enlarge the red river floodway a number of years ago. Sort of funny, it does help more water to by-pass wpg. but it sends more water downstream quicker. Oh well it helps flush wpg's raw sewage downstream.