News - Red River

The Manitoba government will begin its annual ice cutting program this week on the Red River from Selkirk to Netley Marsh to reduce the potential impacts of ice-jam related flooding. The ice cutting and breaking work will start on Feb. 20 and is expected to be completed on March 15.

Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre advises rising water levels along the Red River north of Emerson due to significant precipitation that occurred in the United States’ portion of the Red River basin.

The Manitoba government’s yearly ice-cutting program will begin next week on the Red River to reduce the potential impacts for ice-jam flooding.

The Manitoba government’s annual ice cutting has begun this weekend on the Red River to reduce the potential for ice jam-related flooding.

Red River North RCMP are asking the public for any information into the whereabouts of a missing man from West St. Paul, 41-year-old Kienan (Kenny) Tran.

With the annual spring run-off nearly complete in southern basins, the risk of a major spring high water event remains very low in Manitoba.

The province has announced that it will begin its annual ice cutting this week on the Red River to reduce the potential for ice-jam flooding.

The Manitoba government announced that a five-year contract for ice-jam mitigation services has been awarded to Winnipeg Environmental Remediations Incorporated.

The province has ended the spring 2020 operation of the Red River Floodway as water levels along the Red River continue to recede to normal levels.

The Red River crest has arrived in southern Manitoba at its lower predicted range, Infrastructure Minster Ron Schuler announced.