This year’s CRCAG Annual General Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m. As usual, we will have speakers scheduled to bring you up to speed on key flood-related initiatives for both the Elbow and Bow Rivers. Although much work still lies ahead for the Bow, this event is an opportunity to socialize and collectively celebrate the milestones we have achieved over the past decade. Date: Wednesday, November […]

The City of Calgary has published a news release announcing the completion of the Downtown Barrier. The Downtown Flood Barrier is a continuous 1.39km long consisting of steel sheet piles, earthen berms, concrete walls, and demountable stop log openings built to resist a 1:200 year flood event. With this completion, the Downtown Flood Barrier, Eau Claire Promenade, Centre Street Pedestrian Ramps, and Jaipur Bridge are completely open to the public. […]

The following is a message from the Springbank Off-stream Reservoir Project Team distributed on May 31, 2023. This construction season, an estimated 3.5 million cubic metres of fill material will be moved as part of construction of the Springbank Off-stream Dam Project. This requires the movement of 35,000 cubic metres of fill material daily. The contractor will need to use all good weather days to complete this work. Beginning May 31, 2023, earthwork operations will […]

The Bow River Reservoir Options (BRRO) feasibility study is currently underway and is scheduled for completion by December 2023. Below we’ve shared recent updates from Alberta Environment and Park’s (AEP) latest BRRO newsletter. October BRRO newsletter highlights: Completed vegetation and wetlands surveys for the Glenbow East and Relocated Ghost Dam options. Completed geophysical surveys near the potential dam site for the Relocated Ghost Dam option while surveys for the potential […]

After a tense week, we are now holding our breath as another storm approaches Kananaskis Country. From Monday through Wednesday, between 100 and 150 millimetres of rain was expected, and 75 millimetres of rain came to the city. Cooler temperatures are a big reason why Calgary avoided higher river levels, according to Global Calgary’s chief meteorologist Tiffany Lizée. She explained that the cooler air kept moisture in the form of […]

The City of Calgary held a press conference this afternoon at 4:00 pm to announce that a state of emergency for the City has been declared on account of the flood risk. Police Chief Henry indicated that no widespread overbank flooding is expected, but some communities will be affected.  Bowness and Sunnyside communities were identified as areas where some flooding and basement seepage is expected. A berm will be constructed […]

The City of Calgary and Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) will host a live-streamed media briefing at 4 pm today to share details about the current weather event and any potential flood risk. Tune in here: https://www.calgary.ca/cfod/csc/livevideo.html?redirect=/live At this time, we do not have any additional details to share. We encourage you to watch the live-stream and to follow these social media accounts for urgent updates: https://twitter.com/cityofcalgaryhttps://www.facebook.com/cityofcalgary We will do our […]

Weather forecasting agencies are keeping an eye on a potential rainfall event that could trigger advisories to be issued by Sunday night if it escalates. We send this information not to be alarmist, but to encourage awareness.  We ask all of our members to follow the resource links (at the bottom of this email) to stay up to date with information. CRCAG will push out information as we are able to but […]

On Thursday morning, just over one month from the ninth anniversary of the 2013 Southern Alberta Floods, Premier Jason Kenney and Government of Alberta officials stood at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers in East Village to announce that construction of the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir (SR1) had begun. It has been a long road but we are in the home stretch. Our mission was to comprehensively protect all […]

In 2021, we saw significant milestones achieved on critical flood mitigation infrastructure for Calgary. Yet, while we were protecting ourselves, our neighbours in British Columbia were being subjected to their own dose of devastation. We’ve rounded up the news highlights from the year below. But first, we want to share a recent story from the Globe & Mail that presents a thorough dive into the Sprinbank Off-Stream Reservoir (SR1) project. […]