Water levels on Ottawa River expected to peak as spring flood concerns grow - BERITAJA

Dozens of homes and streets are astatine consequence of flooding arsenic h2o levels connected the Ottawa River are predicted to emergence this greeting by about 30 centimeters.

Emergency officials successful Gatineau, Que., person said 164 homes are astatine consequence of flooding and 41 streets are closed arsenic crews respond to the threat.

The metropolis is among respective communities successful Quebec and Ontario watching intimately arsenic renewed rainfall forecasts put unit connected flood-prone areas.

Environment Canada besides issued a large wind surge informing for Quebec City, informing of higher than normal h2o levels on stream banks astatine today’s precocious tide for the St. Lawrence.

Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette has said flooding has go an “increasingly communal occurrence” successful her state owed to ambiance change.

Elsewhere, immoderate parts of northeastern Ontario, specified arsenic West Nipissing and Central Manitoulin, and cardinal Ontario’s Minden Hills are nether states of emergency, wherever officials are asking residents to hole for imaginable evacuations.