New outlets aimed at helping protect Manitoba communities from flooding
Jun 18, 2018 | 11:00 AM
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WINNIPEG — The federal and Manitoba governments have reached a deal to build two outlet channels to prevent heavy flooding around Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin.
Premier Brian Pallister says the two levels of government will jointly spend up to $540 million to build the channels, which will each measure 23 kilometres in length.
The area was severely flooded in 2011, which wrecked homes and forced about 2,000 people to leave.
The Lake St. Martin First Nation was hardest hit, and most of its residents spent years in temporary housing such as hotel rooms.
