River ice expected to break within the week
Staff at Prince Albert’s water treatment plant are seeing signs ice on the North Saskatchewan will break within the week.
“There’s probably a good indication that within the next four to seven days we’ll see the river break,” P.A. water treatment plant manager, Andy Busse told paNOW. “But there’s no exact science to it.”
The plant’s instruments have started to show more and more organic carbon in the raw water, an indication that matter on the bottom of the river is being stirred up by increasing flow, Busse explained.
Eventually pressure beneath the ice will get so high the frozen layer won’t be able to contain it, triggering the much-anticipated annual parade of icebergs.