Author: Marie Gionet
The Pontiac Quad Club has announced that the Leslie Lake Trail towards Crawford Road is currently closed. Club members will receive the necessary information upon reopening. The other trails are also closed according to the Club’s publication, which says it wants to ensure the safety of its members. The Club says it plans to start […]
Production of sandbag has now been stopped in Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield. However, work to protect the homes from a possible second wave has begun and further work has been done to try to allow evacuees to return home. The water levels of the Ottawa River remain under high surveillance.
The Municipality of Pontiac has announced that evacuated residents of the village of Quyon have returned to their homes. The municipality wanted to remind the residents that only those mentioned on its Facebook page may return and that until further notice the municipality is asking all sandbags to be kept in place. The Municipality of […]
According to the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board, the water levels associated with the initial peak due to natural spring runoff from the west-central portion of the watershed have now been reached everywhere along the Ottawa River. However, water levels are expected to remain high for the next two weeks. Among others, the Coulonge lake […]
Monday May 6th, the Pontiac Sorting Center responded to the Quebec Minister of Environment, Benoit Charette, about the order to cease all depositing and burying of residual materials in non authorized locations (Litchfield) immediately and to proceed with restoring said land as soon as possible. The answer of the Pontiac Sorting Center stated “we have […]
Alicia Jones DG of Allumettes Island talking about the current state of the municipality, with Eric O’Brien.
The MP for Pontiac, William Amos, visited Thursday some municipalities affected by the current floods. I went to Waltham, Mansfield-and-Pontefract, Fort-Coulonge and Isle-aux-Allumettes, to meet local authorities and report on the situation. In an interview with CHIP 101.9 on the subject, Mr. Amos said what the federal government plans to put in place to support […]
Although the Coulonge River has stabilized and started to decline, the Ottawa River is still under surveillance. According to them, even if the second wave will not be as important as the peak reached in the last days, it is necessary to prepare accordingly. Here is the complete interview with the mayors of Fort-Coulonge and […]
The Pontiac is breathing a bit easier over the last few hours of sunshine and the water stabilizing on the Ottawa and the Coulonge Rivers. Once again, CHIP 101.9 spoke with Phillip Holmes, a councilmen of Bristol, to get an update of the current state of the municipality in terms of flooding. Yesterday, Wednesday May […]
The website Urgence Québec updated their assessment of the consequences and evacuations of the spring flooding across Quebec, which represents the current state of the situation. It should be noted that this temporary portrait was produced using information provided by the Ministry of Public Security and by municipalities. Residences that are no longer flooded are […]