He says residents are not yet required to evacuate, but advises people to be prepared to leave the area if an evacuation order is issued. The BC River Prediction Center also upgraded its classification for East Kootenay to flood control. A rain warning was also issued for the Elke Valley, as many areas of northern BC. and the interior remain under flood warnings. There are high flow alerts for the Upper Columbia and West Kutenai areas. Affected waterways include the Elk, Kaslo, Bull and Kootenay rivers. The advice comes as Environment Canada issued a rain warning for the Elk Valley, located in the East Kootenay area near the Alberta-BC border. The meteorologist said that 50-80 mm of rain could fall in the area by Tuesday morning and the areas near Fernie are expected to receive the heaviest amount of rain. Rainfall could lead to local flooding, according to Environment Canada. Another high-flow warning was issued for the South Thompson River and tributaries, including the Seymour, Eagle River, Adams River and Shuswap River.
“Significant flows”
The Provincial River Prediction Center said rivers could rise to levels not seen in a decade, according to its current hydrological modeling, “showing flood risk” on Monday and Tuesday, especially in the East Kootenays. “Given the location of the weather and the heaviest rainfall,” the center said in a statement, “neighboring areas in West Kootenay and Upper Columbia are also likely to have significant flows.” In response to Saturday’s flood monitoring for the North Thompson River, including the tributaries around Barriere and Clearwater, the Clearwater District has activated the Level 1 Emergency Operations Center. Clearwater Mayor Merlin Blackwell says there are concerns about the long-term forecast, which includes rain and temperatures in the 1920s and early adolescence, and unusually high snow levels. “If this continues and the rain continues, this … could cause us problems if we do not see a change in that forecast,” he said. The Liard River in the northeast BC, which includes tributaries around Fort Nelson and Highway 97 to Lake Watson, remains a concern and is still classified as a flood warning. Many other areas of the interior of BC. are subject to either flood monitoring or high flow alert. A sign warning of high water levels in Langley, BC Marina Park, appears in this image posted on Twitter by the Township of Langley on Saturday due to rising river levels in Fort Langley, the municipality said. (Township of Langley / Twitter) In the Fraser Valley, the Marina Park Trail at Fort Langley closed on Sunday due to rising water levels. Parts of the Fraser Valley suburbs, including Hope, Boston Bar, Spences Bridge and Yale, experienced landline interruptions on Sunday, affecting 911 service. Flood warning is the most serious in a three-tier alarm system used by the forecast center and means flood is expected. On the other hand, flood monitoring means that river levels are rising and flooding can occur. The high flow warning is the lowest of the three levels issued by the River Prediction Center.
