OKIB is ready for floods
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Okanagan’s Indian gang has activated its emergency operations center in response to the spring.
There are also fears of flooding and damage to the surrounding mountains from last year’s Lake Rock wildfire, rather than burning tens of thousands of acres of forest.
The group is currently installing Tiger Dams along Whitemans Creek to prevent flood impacts.
OKIB is also working to provide additional resources from the province in the form of Tiger Dams and Gabion Baskets.
The Tiger Dam system consists of elongated flexible tubes that can be quickly arranged, connected end to end and filled with water. The pyramid-shaped structure forms a barrier to protect buildings, resort properties and any other structures before the onset of flooding.
Gabion baskets are wire mesh containers made of double-twisted, hexagonal woven wire mesh. Once assembled, the baskets are filled in place with durable stone to create flexible, permeable, monolithic structures. Gabions can be used to create structures to protect against erosion.
A sandbag station is being built in Comasket to use the recently purchased sandbag machine.
The group will continue to monitor areas identified in the fire risk assessments as being at risk.
Contact Colleen Marchand for more information [email protected]or call 250-306-9796.
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