Update: The Town of Drumheller has been in discussion with Canada Post and a community mailbox that was requested for Rosedale Station has been approved.

It appears that Canada Post is taking a second look at its decision to not install community mailboxes in Rosedale.
The Mail has been following the story since the Rosedale Post Office was temporarily closed in September of last year.
Last week the Mail reported residents were told at the Drumheller Post Office that Rosedale residents would not be getting a community mailbox and their mail service would be at the Drumheller Post office.
Rosedale resident Dianne Snyder began a petition in support of community mailboxes and in about a week gathered over 150 signatures. She received word from Canada Post they are reconsidering installing community mailboxes.
“I just received a phone call from Canada Post in Ottawa and she informs me they are evaluating their stand on the community mailboxes for our town,” Snyder stated on Facebook.
She adds she is expecting a response in about a week.
In the meantime, she tells the Mail she continues to make her petition available to residents wishing to show their support for the community mailboxes.
“I am optimistic but very cautious,” she said. “We now have them communicating with us, which has never happened. To me, you have to have communication before you have anything.”
The petition deals with the lack of proper advertising to find a new site in Rosedale, the removal of the community boxes that were promised in December, and the complete lack of community communication by Canada Post.

Prerequisite work, to determine berm alignment and clearing vegetation in these areas, continues throughout the Drumheller Valley as engineers begin preliminary designs.
Deighen Blakely, senior water resources engineer with Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. is one of the main consultants involved in this step of the design phase and is very familiar with Drumheller and the Red Deer River.
“We’re very fortunate in Drumheller as the province of Alberta did a flood inundation study,” Blakely told the Mail.
Previously, Blakely was operations manager for Alberta Environment and was directly involved in management of existing flood mitigation systems throughout the valley.
Blakely is also well-versed with flood mitigation, having been involved in writing the flood response manual for the City of Calgary.
She notes the first step designing berms is to determine the preliminary alignments, and Blakely adds some of these alignments have been completed due to the number of berms already in place along the Red Deer River.
Borehole drilling, which is being carried out throughout the Drumheller Valley, is part of this next step. While the drilling will help with potential new berm alignments, it will also help with existing systems. The information gathered from existing structures will help determine whether there are any “pockets of unsuitable material,” and identify ground conditions so engineers can calculate slope and height accordingly.
As berms need to be on the river side of buildings within flood areas, Blakely notes riparian vegetation may be impacted.
“Bio-engineering, combining trees, shrubs, and plants together, definitely is happening in this project. The issue is where trees are located in the dike area itself,” Blakely said. She explains roots can cause voids in the dikes, which can cause further damage to the structure and impact flood mitigation.
“For all these reasons, we avoid larger vegetation on or close to the dike,” she says.
While this may be a concern for Drumheller residents, each tree slated for removal will be replaced with five new trees or large vegetation to maintain carbon sequestration along the river-though this new vegetation will be replanted throughout the community and not necessarily in the same area of removal.
Blakely notes engineering firms are wrapping up the conceptual first phase, and the next step is a preliminary design phase which will identify “stormwater outfalls and utilities” as well as finalizing slope and determining setbacks from both buildings and the river.
Landowners directly impacted by berm alignments will be contacted individually by land agents as designs advance. The Flood Mitigation Office asks for patience as they reach out to these individuals to discuss privately how each landowner will be impacted.