
Roads, farmland, homes feeling effects of MD of Taber flood
TABER – The crest has passed, but the flood fight isn’t over yet in the Municipal District of Taber.
The district is the last in the Lethbridge area to remain under a State of Local Emergency, and chief administrative officer Derrick Krizsan doesn’t expect it to be lifted in the immediate future. The Enchant area is still seeing overland flows, and there are trapped floodwaters in some farmland.
“There are going to be many acres of farmland that are not going to be in production this year… the effects are going to be felt for this growing season and into the next.”
– Derrick Krizsan
“We’ve begun mitigation efforts by examining what the damages were and we plan to come back to council next week with a description of the 725-odd sites that we’ve identified, damage to municipal infrastructure, costs and timelines for repair,” Krizsan said Thursday, April 26 in an interview.