Chief Willie Sellars of the Williams Lake First Nation flew over the Chilcotin River landslide and said it's only a matter of time before the debris starts to move.
Footage shows the impact of the landslide that has completely blocked the Chilcotin River in B.C.’s Central Interior. The landslide, located in the Farwell Canyon area, has prompted evacuation orders due concerns about potential flash flooding downstream.Chief Willie Sellars of the Williams Lake First Nation told Global News that it is only a matter of time before movement starts happening on the slide.
For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. “And moving from there we started looking at the impact on the fish, the impact on our cultural sites of… significance along the river, down into the Fraser.”“You can only hope that it starts toppling over and it finds its way and it trickles through slowly,” he said.
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