Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Flooding prompts local state of emergency

By Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenix:
Flooding prompts local state of emergency
 SASKATOON, SK--APRIL 07/2013-- Mel Funk's farm yard north of Martensville is flooded and his shop and outbuildings are in water. The approach to his house is also flooded so he parks his car and walks in through water Tuesday, May 07, 2013. (GREG PENDER/STAR PHOENIX) Photograph by: Greg Pender , The StarPhoenix.
As the Rural Municipality of Corman Park’s council and administration met to declare a local state of emergency Tuesday, crews were busy using back-hoes to cut channels through roads to get water moving. Melvin Funk returned to his farm after helping install a culvert across the township road that passes his farm a few kilometres north of Martensville. “I knew it would be bad (this spring), but I didn’t know it would be this bad. There’s never been water in the yard like this,” Funk said...Continue reading...

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