A scene from the final day of 2023's Calgary Stampede. This year's edition will go on as planned, despite the city's water shortage from a faulty feeder main.
Alberta's marquee festival will proceed, but will import nonpotable water so it isn't a major drain on Calgary's strained water supply during feeder main repairs.A scene from the final day of 2023's Calgary Stampede. This year's edition will go on as planned, despite the city's water shortage from a faulty feeder main. Stampede cleaning crews may hose down the grandstand seats less often after every beer-fuelled night at the chuckwagons.
The Stampede has said it will avoid tapping city supply wherever possible. It will truck in potable water for livestock, and try to use non-potable water for dust maintenance and cleaning, Cowley told reporters Monday. Calgarians look out over a flooded Calgary Stampede grounds and Saddledome in Calgary, Alta., Friday, June 21, 2013. Even though LRT tracks hurtled through the wall of the Big Four building, they still repaired it sufficiently to use the upper floor. They removed the mud from the rodeo infield and chuckwagon track, and rebuilt them with 40 million kilograms of new dirt.
Part of that was business interruption insurance. While it's unclear at this early juncture what sort of coverage or contingencies the not-for-profit organizaton would have for the added expense of importing truckload after truckload of water, that sum is likely lower than the losses Stampede would incur by pulling the plug entirely.
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