Rising water levels, rising danger along Okanagan creeks and rivers
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Day said current water flows in Mission Creek are about 32 cubic meters per second--and depending on the weather forecast could go up to 100 in the next few days.
Graham Morgan walks his dog along Mission Creek in Kelowna, B.C., regularly, but right now he’s being extra careful.
“Every day we’re down here,” Morgan told Global News Wednesday morning. “He loves walking but we keep him away from that bank.”
With warm temperatures accelerating snowmelt in the mountains, water in creeks and rivers is rising rapidly and moving faster and faster.
“Mission Creek usually has a volume of about two to four cubic meters per second. So we’re already you know, close to 10 times that of normal or low flow levels,” said Mike Day, search manager with Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR).
Day said current water flows in Mission Creek are about 32 cubic meters per second, and depending on the weather forecast could go up to 100 in the next few days.
“It could go up over double what it is now,” Day said.
With his experience as a search and rescue volunteer, Day knows all too well the dangers lurking along river banks.
“The dangers not only include the fast moving water, the banks themselves can be very unstable.” he said.
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