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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StirCrazy wrote: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.
This was done in the 1920’s as a public works project. The Barrowtown pump station beside highway 1 lifts the water into the Vedder River whicj joins the Fraser.
The Fraser River flooded in a major way in 1948. This resulted in a major mitigation project.
There is lots of “tilted topography” north and east of the lower Fraser valley. It drains in a hurry. I’ve seen washing machine size rocks being rumbled down a creek that you can wade ankle deep in dry weather. It’s a noise you don’t forget when it wakes you up in your camper :E
