Manitoba officials worked quickly Monday to build dikes higher along the Assiniboine River, while their counterparts in Saskatchewan has warned that the flood would remain a threat to the rest of the month.
Last week, a large part of the Prairie provinces was flooded or in danger of being, with parts of the region, seeing the water more high levels of 150 years.
About 700 people in Manitoba have already been forced to leave their homes, dozens of roads were closed and officials are asking for more vigilance.
"Many ridges are some time offshore," emergency measures Minister Steve Ashton said Sunday. "We are not yet necessarily at the beginning of the spring flood stage."
One of the major trade routes of the province, highway 75, was closed Monday because rising water on the Red River and its tributaries is unworkable.
Truckers to the United States are forced to make wide detours because of the closure.
Dikes along the Assiniboine River upstream of Winnipeg have been built to withstand water seen in 1976, the worst year on record levels. But the River was free of ice this year and officials fear that jams this year will be worse that they would be otherwise levels of water.
Officials said the water level has fallen during the night on the Assiniboine River in Brandon, but flood watches are still in force of Russell in Portage la Prairie.
A small house is seen near the flood waters in Lumsden, a small town north of Regina. (David Stobbe/Reuters)"We have not had a breach of the dam at this time - just over-topping," said Steve Topping with Manitoba water resources management. "" "". Equipment following the jam as it progresses down the stream and they raise you the dikes to contain the water.
Temperatures are forecast to rise this week, so more melting of snow are expected.
The peaks of the Assiniboine River forecasts have increased because of snow and rain which falls in the whole of Saskatchewan over the weekend, meteorologist for CBC News Johanna Wagstaffe said.
Flood concerned gave rise to States of emergency declared the weekend in the municipalities of St. Fran?ois Xavier, Cartier and Headingley.
The community of Wawanese should know a second crest probably next week, and a high water notice was published for the Gladstone region due to a second Crest expected on the Whitemud River in the coming days.
The worst of the flooding cases does not appear to be materializing, but officials calling for vigilance. Saskatchewan Watershed Authority much said water flows in half South of the province have hit a plateau because cold weather slows the melting.
Fifteen communities have declared States of emergency and more than 400 people in two First Nations communities have been forced to leave their homes due to flooding.
Water continues flowing Wascana Creek and the river called engorged, and the Regina Woodpecker is still a week.
The height of the dikes of sand around Wascana Creek Regina bag is raised. The city has already put 40 000 bags of sand in place to protect low-lying areas. Approximately 20,000 sandbags more were completed and the city plans to complete a further 20 000.
"It's like a war zone here with everyone moving and things floating around," said Len Antal, who lives on Crooked Lake in the Valley of the river called. "Everyone here has been incredible kick on the other."
"If the wind never picks up and the ice breaks and begins to move, really like to move, it will just shear houses down like toothpicks.
The Premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall, said that the province will do what he can to help prevent damage due to flooding. His Government allocated 22 million in February to help communities design and strengthen the protection against floods.
Wall predicted another $ 30 million may be required, but said Monday that communities and ministries of the Government must continue their work without worrying about cost now.
The city of Medicine Hat in Alberta, remained under State of emergency Monday, but elsewhere in the province, floods appear to be decreasing. Officials are still worried, however, the accumulation of snow in the border region of Cypress Hills with Saskatchewan. Snow barely began to melt and could carry torrents of water in surface water courses.
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