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Forty-four members of the Canadian Armed Forces were deployed to Twin Lakes Friday morning to battle flooding.
The personnel are from the 3 Platoon of B Squadron, Lord Strathcona’s Horse in Edmonton — part of 300 troops in the region sent to assist in sandbagging and evacuations.
Twin Lakes has been dealing with extraordinarily high water this spring. Last week, crews hired by the RDOS constructed large gabion walls and built up a road to protect several homes and a sewage lift station.
However, the situation has deteriorated over the past few days. Soil liquefaction and sinkholes are starting to develop as the water table continues to rise.
“Our pump house is now a dangerous place and there must be instability of several places and the water keeps coming,” Lower Nipit Improvement District chair Coral Brown said in an email.
The lake is rising around two inches a day, now at 26.33 feet — considered 6.7 feet above flood stage and 8.7 feet above normal high water.
Brown said the RDOS is installing a new diesel pump on the lake today that will increase pumping capacity out of the kettle lake (no natural outflow) to between a half to a full inch a day.
Update on our support to #BCFlood relief: 100 @CanadianForces members are sandbagging in Kelowna, Penticton/Twin Lakes, and Grand Forks.
— CAF Operations (@CFOperations) May 18, 2018
Close to 90 more will be in Grand Forks by tonight.
BC, we're here for you. #2018Freshet #OpLENTUS pic.twitter.com/lRiVZObeNU
