B.C. landslide: Video shows structure washed away after water tops Chilcotin River site

Water that was released from nan Chilcotin River landslide successful B.C.’s Central Interior is now reaching nan Fraser River.

Video shared pinch Global News showed 1 building that was on nan banks of nan Chilcotin was washed into nan flowing water.

Thankfully, that building was unoccupied and not successful use.

About 9 a.m. Monday, h2o started breaching nan earthy reservoir that was formed by past week’s landslide, and by early afternoon, h2o and debris had reached nan Fraser River.

Some properties on nan Chilcotin and Fraser Rivers are nether removal order, and nan state is informing group to enactment away.

“I cannot underline capable really highly unstable and vulnerable nan vale is correct now,” said Bowinn Ma, B.C.’s Minister of Emergency Management, connected Monday.

“It is highly unsafe to beryllium successful nan landslide and surrounding areas. Now that nan h2o has begun flowing past nan earthy dam, location is simply a consequence of further landslides some upstream and downstream of nan wreck of nan dam.”

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As nan h2o moves downstream, it is estimated that levels will beryllium astir nan aforesaid arsenic outpouring flooding.

But nan velocity astatine which it’s moving and nan debris it’s carrying are nan existent concerns.

“It’s going to beryllium absorbing to spot what happens pinch each of that debris,” said Chief Willie Sellars of nan Williams Lake First Nation.

“So that’s also, you know, 1 of nan concerns of organization safety, fish, water, wildlife.”