More than 1,000 people in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been forced to leave their homes as flood waters continue to rise, with concerns that the Red River and Assiniboine could Crest at the same time in Winnipeg.
The number of evacuees increased nearly $ 800 in Manitoba, with nearly 600 provincial and municipal highways affected by floods and 32 municipalities in emergency situations. Most of the evacuees are First Nations at the Centre of Manitoba.
Meteorologist for CBC Johanna Wagstaffe said the red and Assiniboine is now virtually without ice, but which are on the rise of water levels.
Volunteer firefighters in the town of Emerson, just north of the border of Manitoba with the United States, patrol the dike as closer to the crest of the Red River.
Bill Spanjer, EMO Coordinator, said that a 24-hour patrol began Wednesday morning.
Provincial officials have pressed the arrival of the peak Monday, but said that it might be the end of week.
In the village of Saint-Lazare, the crest of the river called should arrive some time Wednesday or Thursday, followed shortly after by the Assiniboine River.
Rick Fouilliard, Director-General of St. Lazare, said the village has a main dike, but there are seven houses outside the area being protected by sandbags.
Crews are monitoring the situation and strengthen the dikes, it said.
"We have a couple of families has moved and we just followed the situation now as it comes up.". "We may have to close the road to the South of the city," said Fouilliard.
The main dam the village is also built up to another half-meter.
Melita, a town in southwest of nearly 1,000 people, the level of water on the Souris River has already exceeded the high water mark expected this year.
"In 2009, the last major flood in Manitoba event, they raised dykes in this community and they have raised a bridge," CBC Wab Kinew journalist said. "However, because water is exceeded forecasts, they are now scrambling to implement new flood mitigation measures."
There are worries Melita dike may not be able to hold water and that a breach could flood the city sewer system. Wednesday at the start, a motel in the community was flooded.
"They put Hesco barriers, tube of dikes and tries to global to raise their level of protection to a foot,"Said Kinew.""
The premier Greg Selinger fly Melita Thursday to survey damage and work.
Manitoba officials say about 700 employees provinces work on the response of flooding across the province, and municipal employees, private entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations such as the army of salvation, the Red Cross and Mennonite disaster Service.
Minister Steve Ashton, Manitoba emergency measures, says the province will be wrestling with the legacy of flooding this year, the time after that rivers Crest and withdrew the water dousing a large part of the province.
Water levels are at least as high that they were in 2009 - the season of second-worst flood in the past 150 years.
This flood caused 70 million dollars in damages and this year should be just more expensive.
Ashton said water levels will cause problems in May. He said residents and cottagers will have to remain vigilant and keep an eye on the wind that has the potential to galvanise the swollen Lakes.
In Saskatchewan, 13 communities have declared States of emergency and more 440 people on the two First Nations were forced to leave their homes.
Lynn Acoose, Sakimay First Nation Chief, said some of the roads are flooded and many homes is waterlogged. She also said there is concern that drinking water in the wells and tanks of people may be contaminated.
The First Nation of Ochapowace has declared a State of emergency Wednesday. Preliminary work is done to prevent flooding of houses.
Two families have been evacuated from their homes in the community, near Round Lake, the last of the chain of lakes that called in the southeast of the province. An emergency centre was created in the complex of elders, a.
However, there is some good news at least three communities where the flood waters began to disappear. Radville and the rural municipalities of Laurier and Estevan is no longer in emergency situations.
Cool temperatures have saved many communities of the worst scenarios. However, Wagstaffe warned, temperatures should increase, and there are still some snow left cover to melt.
The province Watershed Authority, said the city of Regina can expect water levels in the steep Wascana Lake end of the week.
Officials, said that the province is always buying bags of sand to ensure that they don't miss. Workers provinces will supplies for areas around Humboldt, Wynyard, Porcupine Plain, Kelvington and Lake Lenore where snow begins to melt.
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