Partnerships being made to help with flooding


BY NIKKI JAMIESON insight magazine


hectares, from the east side of the city of Lethbridge to the Stafford Reservoir,and a couple of miles north and south of the town of Coaldale, which is situated roughly in the middle of the basin.As the town, Lethbridge


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municipal partnership is working to mitigate flooding within the Malloy Drainage Basin.The Malloy Drainage Basin is an area of 22,000


County and St.Mary River Irrigation District are located within this area, they have part- nered together to work towards mitigating flooding concerns in the basin, with funding from the Alberta Community Resilience Program(ACRP). So far, construction has been completed for a canal upgrade, located in the lower part of the Malloy Drain that’s part of the SMRID canal system in 2011. “The reasons for why on the downstream


end, is we needed a place to release the water,”said Andrea Koester, director of infra- structure.“So we needed to upgrade, starting at the bottom,and then working our way up, so when we do discharge, there’s some place


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for that water to go.” The next part of the construction, known as phase one,went in 2014-17,and consisted of more canal upgrades. “It went from about six cubic metres per


second in the canal, to 60,”said Koester.“The canals are built just for irrigation, right? They don’t have a lot of room to take the extra runoff that can dump into them. So for irriga- tion, all that is needed is four or five, six cubic metres per second,but when you get all the drainage into there, that’s when you need the 60.”


Once those upgrade projects were com-


pleted, the focus was shifted to storing water. Design work started in 2014 for a storm water


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