Landowners west of Calgary fighting provincial flood mitigation plan

Some landowners just upstream of Calgary are less than pleased with their property being expropriated for a massive flood mitigation project.

 

The province and the firm handling the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir project held their first open house in Calgary Tuesday evening.

 

Ryan Robinson, with the group Don’t Damn Springbank, says the more details they learn about the project, the more he’s convinced it’s “bad public policy”.

 

“It involves taking thousands of acres from private landowners, in Springbank… Albertans,” Robinson said.

 

“There is a much better option, which is the McLean Creek, a dry reservoir, which is upstream of Bragg Creek and Redwood Meadows. It’s on public land and it protects the communities of Redwood Meadows and Bragg Creek.”

Robinson said Redwood Meadows and Bragg Creek were some of the hardest hit communities in the 2013 flood and said this current plan will not protect them.

 

Another open house goes Wednesday in Cochrane.

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