A Flood Warning from the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority
To: All School Boards. All Municipalities, Police Services, MNR, Area, District and Provincial Response Centre, Hamilton Region, Grand River, & Long Point Conservation Authorities .
Thursday, February 20th – This notice is intended to advise the public and local municipalities of the status of the watercourse conditions within the Niagara Peninsula and the eastern portions of the City of Hamilton and Haldimand County.
Rain is expected to begin early this afternoon and continue into Friday night. Rainfall totals exceeding 50mm are predicted to fall by Friday evening. This, combined with temperatures reaching up to 7 degrees Celsius will help melt the existing snowpack.At the present time, all major and minor watercourses are frozen and water levels remain well below critical thresholds. The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority will continue to monitor stream and weather conditions closely and will issue further messages as required.
During this time, parents are urged to keep children well away from streams and creeks as the banks may be slippery and the ice unstable. Local municipalities are advised to check for debris and ice clogging culverts, catch basins, and other storm infrastructure. Drivers are reminded there is an increased risk of water and ice over roads and should be particularly careful at night.
Information on the Flood Status in the watershed and water levels within the streams can be found on the NPCA’s website at http://www.npca.ca/watershed-management/stream-flow-monitoring.
This notice is in effect until 10:00pm Friday, February 21, 2014 and will be updated as required.
(An Afterword from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper – This coming weather system could be a bad one too for anyone who has a home or business in a flood-prone neighbourhood of the Niagara region and neighbouring regions in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York areas, and Hamilton and Toronto area communitieis in the greater Golden Horseshoe area.
So my advice as someone who lives in a flood-prone neighbourhood is get any valuables off the floor and up on higher shelves in your basement or other lower floor in your home or business RIGHT NOW. And the best of luck to all of us who are bracing for the very latest in what won’t be the end in a climate change nightmare NAL will have more to say about later.)
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