The Manitoba government advises water levels on many rivers, creeks and streams in the Parkland, Interlake and southwest areas of the province continue to rise due to record rainfall across much of southern Manitoba, resulting in significant overland flooding.
Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation advises that weekend rainfall across much of southern Manitoba has resulted in flooding and record flow levels on 13 southern Manitoba rivers and streams, washed-out roads and some localized evacuations.
An unstable low-pressure system will bring precipitation across southern Manitoba in the coming days.
While spring run-off and the threat of flooding have subsided in many areas of Manitoba, higher-than-normal precipitation in some areas of the province has resulted in persistent high flows on streams and high lake levels.
Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation reports the ice cover on rivers and lakes in southern Manitoba is thinning and subject to shifting and pileup on shorelines.
A flood warning is in place for all points along the Carrot River due to high flows. The ice pack is moving but water remains high.
Flood warnings are in place for all points along the Carrot River due to high flows and the potential for ice jams, and the Assiniboine River from the Shellmouth Dam to Brandon, due to high flows.
Flood warnings are in place for the Assiniboine River from the Shellmouth Dam to Brandon, due to high flows.
Water was released yesterday from behind a culvert blocked by ice at the base of a former railway embankment near Birtle.
At approximately 12:30 a.m., ice that had blocked the culvert at the base of a former railway embankment near Birtle released.
