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THURSDAY JUNE 1, 2017

2013 Honda Civic LX $11,995

$93

biweekly + HST

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RVCA, MNR are no longer in the sand bagging business

Serving Perth and Area for over 23 years

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66 Foster Street, Perth • 613-267-4466 115 Bridge Street, Carleton Place

BY DESMOND DEVOY

ONLINE at

desmond.devoy@metroland.com

If 2016 was a year of drought, 2017 will likely be a year of flooding. Sommer Casgrain-Robertson, general manager of the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA), in a delegation to Perth town council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday, May 9, said that the RVCA only issued about 10 flood messages in 2016. “That was a relatively quiet flood year for us,” she said. Compare that with 13 drought messages last year. “We were busy on that front.” This year, however, because of heavy rains mixed with snow melt, “flooding … is top of mind these last few weeks,” she said. While people living along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec are seeing a once-in-30-years flood, Mayor John Fenik admitted that the town has 1,500 sandbags, “only enough to protect our assets.” That is why he will be proposing that Lanark County stockpile “5,000 sand bags in a central location,” for future flooding. “Do you (at the RVCA) have a stockpile of sandbags?” asked Fenik of Casgrain-Robertson. “No,” she said. In the past, the RVCA did, and people still think that the RVCA has sand bags “because they used to.” “To my knowledge,” she added, both the RVCA and the Ministry of Natural Resources “no longer stockpile,” sand bags.

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