While many are pondering the seeming lack of winter weather in the South Okanagan with mild temperatures and no snow in the valley bottom, the question on many minds is what this means for the snowpack, crucial for determining drought conditions.
The Town of Osoyoos, along with partners from the RDOS, regional member municipalities and local First Nations, hosted a “Tiger Dam” demonstration on Sunday March 30, in Gyro Park.
The Town of Osoyoos, along with partners from the RDOS, regional member municipalities and local First Nations, is hosting a “tiger dam” training on Sunday March 30, in Gyro Park.
Oliver is applying for $5 million in provincial funding to mitigate future floods that stem from Wolf Cub Creek.
If you think the absence so far of typical spring flooding is going to mean less annoying mosquitos, you’re likely letting optimism get the best of you.
Emergency Support Services (ESS) responders in the region will be better prepared to provide support to evacuees during emergencies like wildfires through new streamlined training and increased funding announced today by the province.
Plans have been established for 2024 to bolster Oliver’s emergency and disaster management program due to incoming provincial legislation, and the review of the town’s 2023 freshet response.
The town of Oliver’s after-action review of the May 6, 2023 flooding indicates many positives in their emergency response along with specific recommendations to improve its plans and response.
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The Town of Osoyoos has applied to the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund under their Disaster Risk Reduction through climate adaptation funding stream in hopes of moving forward with plans to develop a staged flood response plan, new floodplain land use regulation, and protections for the community’s water wells.
On August 18, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) board of directors got their first look at an “after action review,” or AAR, of 2021’s atmospheric river flooding that they commissioned from Cailan Emergency Management Solutions.
While the RDOS is reminding property owners to prepare for potential flooding, regional directors in Oliver and Osoyoos aren’t too worried yet.
“Now is the time to prepare if you live in vulnerable areas, on or near floodplains within the RDOS, or if you have previously experienced spring flooding.”
Highway 3, is closed in both directions as a result of flooding between Taylor Way and Old Hedley Rd for 26.7 km (3.0 km east of Princeton to 6.0 km west of Hedley), according to DriveBC.
Commercial traffic could be moving on the heavily damaged Coquihalla Hwy 5 in just over two months’ time, by late January 2022.
Members of the Bhavsager Sikh Temple in Oliver spent long days and nights on the road this past week, bringing vital food, water and other supplies to Princeton as well as stranded motorists, truckers, staff and guests stranded around Manning Park Resort.
Among the grocery store items hit by supply chain disruptions from highway closures out of the lower mainland, the one thing consumers are clamouring for almost above all else is milk.
Grocery stores are working to resume food deliveries during highway closures.
As heavy rainfall drenched the province over the weekend, flooding, mudslides and rock debris have...