By Stephanie Froese

Families return home after flooding

Jul 25, 2011 | 12:36 PM

People from the communities of Timber Bay and the Montreal Lake Cree Nation are back home.
Eighty people from Timber Bay and 13 families from Montreal Lake were evacuated last week due to water levels playing havoc on local roads.

While the roads in and out of the community are now passible, the water levels in parts of north Central Saskatchewan are still rising.

Montreal River and Lake will rise for the next several weeks and have already surpassed previous records, said Dale Hjertaas, director of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority.

“We’re all at record levels and uncharted territories,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hjertaas said other areas in the region have already passed their peaks.

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“We expect to see levels in the tributary streams to those large lakes such as Jan and Deschambault and so on to start to decline,” he said.
Popular weekend destinations like Candle Lake that were facing the possibility of flooding, are also on the way down

Colin King, deputy commissioner of emergency management and fire safety for the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety said they are still battling high flows around Lac La Ronge.

“There were some experiences of flooded basements and sewer backup and that sort of thing. They are still fairly active in that community and with their operation center established in the Air Ronge village office, working with the neighboring village of La Ronge and volunteers sandbagging around the Lift Station,” King said.

He said the water lever in the La Ronge areas hasn’t decreased but the urgency of the operation and response has.
 

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