Highway Thru Hell floods 2021
The last couple of days southern British Columbia has seen unbelievable amounts of rain fall and warm temperatures. Hope BC had just under 10 inches of rain in 36 hrs. The main Hwy that the Highway ...
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Fisherman wrote:
Like other questionable areas around the world, why would anyone in their right mind live at the bottom of a drained lake. Not the first time this has happened either.
its quite interesting, I was wondering the same thing and looked into the history. it was basicly a very very large, very shallow lake, more of a swamp, mosquitos and all that stuff. it was easy to build a "dam/spillway" from the sumas river to the fraser to divert the water and install a dyke and pump station to maintain it once they put the flow back to normal. the reason for doing it asind from getting rid of the "swamp" was that it would give them much needed rich farmland they despratly needed.
