Please note that the Flood Advisory Panel has indicated that at our Town Hall meeting on October 24 it will have some updates with regards to mitigation on the Bow River. We have many members in Bowness and Sunnyside and we understand their concerns that the Panel was initially focused on the Elbow and Highwood. The Bow River is part of the panel’s mandate now and so we encourage those […]

It has been three months since our initial town hall meeting on July 23. Much work has been done and much work remains to be done. Please join us on Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Temple B’nai Tikvah located in Britannia at 900 – 47th Ave SW. to learn more about proposed upstream flood mitigation and the Disaster Recovery Program (DRP). Speakers will include: Allan Markin, […]

Following this link to view the Flood Advisory Panel Slide Show Community Flood Mitigation PDF Publication copy

On October 4th members of the Calgary River Communities Action Group attended the Flood Symposium Hosted by the Government of Alberta. This is the link to the video and slideshows that were presented at the Symposium. http://alberta.ca/flood-symposium.cfm We were thrilled to see the public presentation of Allan Markin’s Flood Advisory Panel recommendations for several berms upstream and bypasses that will greatly help the City of Calgary and Town of High […]