ODN’s extensive around the clock coverage of slides, overflowing lakes, streams and creeks will continue but we would like to pause and thank a few people who made it possible: Gary and Lloyd Cook Terry Schafer Jim and Shelley Stewart Jeanie and Dennis Tomlin Gail and Ken Blidook Allen Lamb Gail Erickson Rose and Stan […]

Source: Environment Canada A ridge of high pressure is building across British Columbia, ushering in the first prolonged warmer weather period of the freshet season. Temperatures are expected to gradual rise through Friday, with temperatures expected to reach in the low to high 20’s throughout most of the BC Interior. Snow packs observations at automated […]

  Meeting called by RDOS on the subject of flooding dangers in the Park Rill Creek Basin (Willowbrook to Okanagan River) 6:30 pm in one third hall plus more seats. Chaired by Director Terry Schafer with introduction of the subject by Bill Newell, CAO Regional District Okanagan Similkameen. Panels include RDOS staff and provincial department […]

Gabion Walls installed – but not filled with rock and gravel New Culverts – cut and cover installed on Hwy 97 Roadway open to two way traffic. Water flow still high on Sportsman’s Bowl Rd. The plan to divert water into all culverts and possibly use “tiger dams” to direct water to west arm of […]

A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire. Gabion walls are usually battered (angled back towards the slope), or stepped back with the slope, rather than stacked vertically. … Galvanized steel wire is most common, but PVC-coated and stainless steel wire are also used. Below of Town […]