Heavy rains, thunderstorms prompt flood watch for Peterborough area

A flood watch has been issued for each h2o bodies successful nan Peterborough, Ont., region owed to dense rainfall and thunderstorms Tuesday that are expected to proceed Wednesday.

Otonabee Conservation says nan region whitethorn person betwixt 40 and 60 millimetres of rainfall connected Tuesday arsenic a consequence of nan passing of a acold front, which will lead to dense downpours and terrible thunderstorms.

The authority says location is imaginable for flooding, prompting a flood watch for each watercourses and bodies wrong nan conservation authority’s geographical jurisdiction of Peterborough, sections of nan City of Kawartha Lakes, and nan townships of Asphodel-Norwood, Cavan Monaghan, Douro-Dummer, Otonabee-South Monaghan and Selwyn and nan Municipality of Trent Hills.

“Present reservoir levels and stream and watercourse flows are supra normal for this clip of year,” said Gordon Earle, flood forecasting and informing work officer. “Significant rainfall coming is apt to origin nan accelerated emergence of h2o levels and flows, causing flooding.”

Earle says residents of flood-prone areas and shorelines are advised to stay prepared for imaginable flooding and beryllium cognizant of upwind conditions and alerts complete nan adjacent 48 hours.

Recreational h2o users are besides urged to stay cautious because precocious h2o levels and flows will proceed done nan weekend

The flood watch is successful effect until astatine slightest Thursday astatine 3 p.m.

Area h2o level accusation tin beryllium monitored online at:

• Trent-Severn Waterway’s Water Management InfoNet
• Water Survey of Canada Real-Time Hydrometric Data
• Otonabee Region Conservation Authority website

South of nan Peterborough area, nan Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority says while nary flooding wrong its jurisdiction is expected, a watershed conditions connection is successful effect until Wednesday.

Some ponding of h2o successful low-lying areas is imaginable and watercourse banks whitethorn beryllium slippery, and structures specified arsenic dams, bridges and culverts whitethorn person fast-flowing water, flood operations serviceman Mike Smith cautions.

“Streamflows person returned to normal since past week, nevertheless higher than normal h2o levels and flows tin beryllium expected pursuing nan dense rains that are forecast for coming (Tuesday),” Smith said. “In addition, saturated soils mixed pinch precocious rates of rainfall whitethorn origin erosion connected bare soils and astir watercourse edges.”