By Glenn Hicks

Reclamation work starts around north east wildfires

Sep 21, 2017 | 3:14 PM

With continuing heavy rains dampening the wildfires in the north east and the last of the evacuees returning home, some attention is now turning to land reclamation.

Steve Roberts with Wildfire Management said most of the bulldozer lines and breaks made during the peak of the fire fight around Pelican Narrows will be returned to their original state.

“Those areas [around the communities and in the forest] now have excavators and heavy equipment working on them to ensure they don’t have siltation into water courses and they’ll regenerate naturally,” Roberts said.

However, not all the ground that was ploughed up will need to be completely reclaimed.

Roberts said there’s a good reason to leave some as is.

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“They do make good future fire breaks around those communities, for example the one around Jan Bay,” he said. “We’ll do some work around that to make sure it’s secure.”

With over 40-millimetres of rain this week, officials are calling the wildfire situation “stable.”

All remaining evacuees were expected home by late Thursday. Emergency Social Services said roughly 170 people were still in P.A. as of Wednesday.

Officials said the highways near Pelican Narrows were also being repaired after all the heavy equipment caused surface damage.

Glenn.Hicks@jpbg.ca

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