Crews in town were busy clearing brush and growth on dikes throughout the valley for inspection.
Drumheller is in the initial stages of its flood mitigation and resiliency project. A large component of protecting the valley is the existing dike work that has been done by the province. The town will be taking over the ownership of the structures, however before they do that, these will need to be inspected for their condition.
“We need to clear it as much as we can so our engineering team can come along and see if there are any cracks or slumping or any other defects in the dikes before we take them over from the province and make them larger,” said Chief Resiliency and Flood Mitigation officer Darwin Durnie.
There are dikes throughout the valley bordering neighbourhoods including Midland, Newcastle, North Drumheller, Downtown Drumheller, and East Coulee. There are about 6.5 kilometres of provincial dikes. They will also be investigating Railroad embankments, and are using local crews to take on the work.
Work is to continue into October.
