Worst-case models point to reduced Chilcotin landslide downstream flood threat

VANCOUVER — Worst-case scenario modelling of the potential impacts of an over-the-top water breach of a massive landslide blocking British Columbia's Chilcotin River points to reduced flood threats downstream, Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma

VANCOUVER — Worst-case scenario modelling of the potential impacts of an over-the-top water breach of a massive landslide blocking British Columbia's Chilcotin River points to reduced flood threats downstream, Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma said Saturday.

Nathan Cullen, water, land and resource stewardship minister, said the slide scenario still has the potential to impact the Chilcotin River ecosystem, but the Fraser River appears able to handle what could be on the way. The slide was estimated Saturday by B.C.'s Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship to be 1,000 metres long, 100 metres wide and about 30 metres high.

"The good news is once we hit the Fraser River this water and material has a significant amount of room to spread out and disperse," Chapman said."As we move downstream and get to the area of Lillooet, the Fraser River will only be about 1.8 metres above what it's currently at.

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