There is a very important public meeting coming
up Tuesday, March 11th, 7:00 PM, at the Sundre Legion, where
Government of Alberta representatives will be in our community to hear
questions and provide answers to residents regarding follow up plans after the
2013 Floods. Local Councils and administrations will also be present.
Please come to this meeting to hear about progress to date. Please bring
your questions, concerns and ideas about how we can all protect people,
property and the environment. This is your chance to have your voice
heard.
There is a plan. Local concerns and
questions have been taken to Provincial Government Officials, both at the
Minister and Administrative levels. The Town of Sundre and Mountain View
County have been meeting with those same Officials and Ministers. Both Councils have commissioned separate
engineering studies to "do the science" of learning from studying
past river flow patterns and predicting possible future river flow patterns
using advanced scientific technology. Sundre and Mountain View County have
submitted requests to the Province for projects to help prevent predictable
disaster from high water events in the future. The Government of Alberta
has also been studying the science of the entire Red Deer River Watershed.
There is a short-term plan to deal with what
happened in 2005 and 2013, and there are some long-range ideas for reviewing
the entire Red Deer River Watershed into the future. This is a community
meeting because all of us are concerned about our river. Please come to
the meeting to become better informed about what the issues are, what some of
the ideas might be to deal with those issues, and bring your ideas and
questions as well.
Flood
Preparedness Information Session
Tuesday,
March 11th
7:00
PM
Sundre
Royal Canadian Legion
If you would like more information to better
prepare for this public meeting please contact me at home, 403-638-3535. This
is your opportunity to find out what is happening with plans for keeping us all
safer in the future.
Check out the Province’s Flood Mitigation
website: http://alberta.ca/floodmitigation.cfm or if you are interested in what
happened in Sundre during the 2013 Flood Event, please go to http://sundre.com/2013-sundre-flood.html
We hope to see you there.
Mayor
Terry Leslie