B.C. flooding: Crews continue to monitor Parker Cove conditions ahead of evacuee meeting
Global News
As flood evacuations continue, the Okanagan Indian Band said late Saturday that emergency management crews continue to move silt and debris from Whiteman's Creek bridge.
The Okanagan Indian Band is planning a meeting this week to give evacuated residents a full update on the flood situation related to Whiteman’s Creek in Parker Cove, B.C.
In a statement Saturday evening the OKIB said emergency management crews were continuing to move silt and debris from Whiteman’s Creek bridge.
“The creek is filled with silt and water may overtop the bridge,” read the statement.
A third excavator was working in a gravel pit with 20,000 sandbags in reserve.
OKIB said five other creeks on the Westside are rising, but have not yet overflowed.
The OKIB Emergency Support Services located at 8 Bonneau Rd., at New Horizons, was closed Sunday and will reopen Monday at 10 a.m.
As of Sunday, 55 households and 110 evacuees had registered with ESS services.
OKIB has delivered 285 dump truck loads of sand to Whiteman’s Creek sandbagging station since Monday.
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