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.
Downstream Fraser River communities of Lillooet, Lytton, Boston Bar and Hope can expect to see higher water levels if the slide blocking the Chilcotin River south of Williams Lake gives way in the coming days, but the water flows will be similar to those of a normal spring run off season, she said at a news conference.
