B.C. government to provide live update on landslide as water starts moving

The B.C. authorities is group to supply an update connected Monday day connected nan Chilcotin River landslide.

Bowinn Ma, Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, and Nathan Cullen, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, will beryllium joined by authorities method unit to supply an update astatine 2 p.m.

That will beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected BC1 and successful nan station above.

Videos taken on Monday greeting astatine nan tract of nan reservoir show h2o flowing complete nan apical of nan site.

A BC Emergency alert has been issued to cellphones, power and tv to counsel group successful nan area connected aliases on nan riverbanks of nan Chilcotin River from Hanceville to nan Fraser River, and nan Fraser River from nan Chilcotin River to nan Gang Ranch Road bridge, to evacuate instantly owed to flooding and debris flow.

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B.C. officials had issued an removal bid Sunday nighttime for an area conscionable northbound of wherever nan Chilcotin River meets nan Fraser River because of nan threat of flooding caused by nan landslide.

In a news merchandise precocious Sunday, officials pinch nan Cariboo Regional District told residents to time off “immediately” and said group who chose to enactment did truthful astatine their ain risk. The removal bid covered 3.5 quadrate kilometres.

The monolithic landslide past week astatine Farwell Canyon located astir 22 kilometres southbound of Williams Lake dammed nan Chilcotin River and created a reservoir astir 11 kilometres agelong down nan slide.

The Tsilhqot’in First Nation said that arsenic of Sunday morning, nan descent was holding backmost 61 cardinal cubic meters of water, equalling “24,400 Olympic swimming pools.”

-with files from The Canadian Press