Manitoba Water Stewardship is encouraging residents in areas affected by heavy rains and flooding who use well water to boil it before consumption or use a safe alternative such as bottled water until flood waters have receded and test results confirm the bacterial safety of their water.
Extensive over-land flooding continues in many areas of southern Manitoba due to run-off from recent heavy rains falling on saturated ground.
Manitoba Water Stewardship has issued a flood watch for most areas of southern Manitoba.
Manitoba Water Stewardship advises that two storms on the long weekend produced widespread rain over most of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Manitoba Water Stewardship advises recent heavy rains have caused sudden rises in river levels in southern Manitoba and are expected to affect levels of some lakes.
A Colorado low in the U.S. is expected to move further north than previously expected. This will bring significant rainfall over the Red River Valley from Grand Forks to Lake Winnipeg.
Manitoba Water Stewardship has updated its flood forecast for the Red River and is now projecting crest levels near the lower end of the previous forecast range and even lower from St. Adolphe to the floodway inlet.
Manitoba Water Stewardship advises it intends to raise the Red River Floodway gates at approximately 9:30am today to divert water into the floodway channel and help control river levels in Winnipeg.
Manitoba Water Stewardship reports that cold weather is causing parts of the Red River to refreeze and extensive frazil ice is developing.
The latest report from Manitoba Water Stewardship’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre indicates southern Manitoba is benefiting from a slow melt and dry weather, with levels of predicted Red River crests now being lowered.
