The higher levels of snow this winter has been a welcome relief for landowners, but with that comes the concern for potential overland flooding.

Reeve for the RM of Two Borders, Debbie McMechan, says a slow melt is most desirable at this time in spring.

“Mother Nature has been pretty hard on us, but she has been pretty kind to us at the same time, because we sure needed the snow,” shares McMechan.

“We’ve got a good amount of snow .. the sloughs are full of snow and everybody’s looking at it as a savior to replenish those water tables and get the dug outs full, because it was so desperate there last year before we got the fall rains.”

She notes, right now they’re not too worried about spring flooding – but that too can change pretty quickly.  They’ve been watching the reports for the water run-off out of Saskatchewan, as that can often ‘tell the tale of the western part of the municipality.’ 

“It’s of course a little different on the other side of the municipality, but I haven’t heard much alarm out there about that, mostly because the ground was so thirsty,” she shares. 

“But, if there’s anything I’ve learned about Manitoba is that anything can happen,” adds McMechan. “Because we don’t know about the coming precipitation, and a lot of our events have not necessarily been during the melt.”