B.C. officials hold live update on Chilcotin River landslide situation

Concern continues to turn complete nan Chilcotin River landslide successful B.C.’s Central Interior, which has created an unstable reservoir holding backmost thousands of litres of water.

The provincial authorities will beryllium providing an update connected nan business astatine 1 p.m. PT. Bowinn Ma, Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, and Nathan Cullen, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, will beryllium joined by method unit from nan province.

That will beryllium livestreamed supra and this communicative will beryllium updated aft nan property conference.

On Wednesday, a landslide blocked nan Chilcotin River, which feeds into nan Fraser River. The landslide is astir 22 km upstream from nan Farwell Canyon Bridge and is estimated to beryllium astir 600 to 800 metres successful length, 300 to 600 metres successful width and astir 30 metres successful depth.

The caller reservoir that has formed down nan landslide stretches astir 8 km upstream and officials said connected Thursday that nan h2o is apt to breach by either pouring complete nan apical aliases seeping through, causing nan reservoir to springiness way.

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Geotechnical crews are successful nan area surveying nan descent site, which is being described arsenic sandy and highly unstable.

The reservoir is nether 24-hour surveillance.