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It came close to overwhelming Winnipeg's existing flood protection system. [10] At the time, the Winnipeg Floodway was designed to protect against a flow of 60,000 cu ft/s (1,700 m 3 /s), but the 1997 flow was 63,000 cu ft/s (1,800 m 3 /s). To compensate, the province broke operational rules for the Floodway, as defined in legislation, during ...
The 1950 Red River flood was a devastating flood that took place along the Red River in The Dakotas and Manitoba from April 15 to June 12, 1950. Damage was particularly severe in the city of Winnipeg and its environs, which were inundated on May 5, also known as Black Friday to some residents.
The province of Manitoba completed the Red River Floodway in 1968 after six years of construction, built permanent dikes in eight towns south of Winnipeg, and built clay dikes and diversion dams in the Winnipeg area. Other flood control structures completed later were the Portage Diversion and the Shellmouth Dam on the Assiniboine River. Even ...
The floodway is colloquially referred to as Duff's Ditch, and is a 47 km (29 mi) long diversion channel that protects Winnipeg from flooding. [40] The great horned owl can be found in Winnipeg. Construction on the floodway project began 6 October 1962 and cost $63 million.
The Portage Diversion (also known as the Assiniboine River Floodway) is a water control structure on the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada The project was made as part of a larger attempt to prevent flooding in the Red River Valley .
The flood came close to overcoming Winnipeg's existing flood protection system. [42] At the time, the Winnipeg Floodway was designed to protect against a flow 60,000 cu ft/s (1,700 m 3 /s), but the 1997 flow was 63,000 cu ft/s (1,800 m 3 /s). To compensate, the province broke operational rules for the floodway, as defined in legislation, during ...
The Red River Floodway around Winnipeg attracted some derision at the time, as some people thought it was massively overbuilt and was the then-largest earth-moving project in the world. [citation needed] The project was completed under-budget, and has been used for at least some flood control 20 times in the 37 years from its completion to 2006 ...
A map of the FM Area Diversion Project. The Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Area Diversion project, officially known as the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Diversion Flood Risk Management Project, is a large, regional flood control infrastructure project on the Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and flows north to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.