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IronNoggin

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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #75 on: January 14, 2020, 10:55:40 AM »
Contract awarded for crucial winter work to restore slide-impacted Fraser River

https://globalnews.ca/news/6405500/contract-awarded-restoration-work-fraser-river/
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #76 on: January 14, 2020, 03:36:45 PM »
PK and Sons has more earth moving equipment than any company in North America....
Even more than the USA military.

Logical choice for the contract.   Lets the pro's do their thing.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #77 on: January 15, 2020, 02:03:15 PM »
Let's hope permits and red tape don,t delay a start this winter........
Big company with high safety standards, may be a slow process to have everything in order properly for a quick start.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #78 on: January 28, 2020, 10:43:40 AM »
Noting that the cold weather has hampered the efforts to deal with the slide, the new Fisheries Minister could not miss an opportunity to put a positive spin on the matter:

"It's just such an inaccessible area and it's been a gargantuan effort between the federal government the provincial government and First Nations," Donaldson said. "The relationships built between those three levels of government has been amazing."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/big-bar-landslide-winter-1.5440377

Unfortunately if those words were true, we would be one hell of a lot further along in dealing with the matter...

Nog
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #79 on: January 28, 2020, 02:07:18 PM »
that quote isnt from the new fisheries minister
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #80 on: January 28, 2020, 02:45:36 PM »
Quote from: Cyanescens on January 28, 2020, 02:07:18 PM
that quote isnt from the new fisheries minister
LOL! It's from Doug Donaldson, BC's Minister of Forests et al.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #81 on: January 28, 2020, 02:50:05 PM »
C'mon, Ironnoggin doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.

"Unfortunately if those words were true..." is a little ironic :) 
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #82 on: January 28, 2020, 03:47:50 PM »
Quote from: IronNoggin on January 28, 2020, 10:43:40 AM
Noting that the cold weather has hampered the efforts to deal with the slide, the new Fisheries Minister could not miss an opportunity to put a positive spin on the matter:

"It's just such an inaccessible area and it's been a gargantuan effort between the federal government the provincial government and First Nations," Donaldson said. "The relationships built between those three levels of government has been amazing."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/big-bar-landslide-winter-1.5440377

Unfortunately if those words were true, we would be one hell of a lot further along in dealing with the matter...

Nog

Typical Nog. Couldn't resist an opportunity to put a negative spin. Perhaps he should read the article before spouting off.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #83 on: February 11, 2020, 01:19:41 PM »
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #84 on: April 01, 2020, 02:15:12 PM »
Any news from good sources? Spring freshet is less than a month away.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #85 on: April 01, 2020, 02:57:21 PM »
Last I head they were still working on it.  Nothing really new, just suggesting all repairs may not be complete before the freshet.  Staying cold in the interior should delay snow melt, giving some more time.
I will be very interested in the amount of FN fishing happening soon, hopefully their leaders will have convinced them to stay off the river.  It's really up to them if these early run chinooks will survive.

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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #86 on: April 01, 2020, 03:00:53 PM »
Quote from: Dave on April 01, 2020, 02:57:21 PM
Last I head they were still working on it.  Nothing really new, just suggesting all repairs may not be complete before the freshet.  Staying cold in the interior should delay snow melt, giving some more time.
I will be very interested in the amount of FN fishing happening soon, hopefully their leaders will have convinced them to stay off the river.  It's really up to them if these early run chinooks will survive.

If that’s what we are relying on those Chinook are doomed
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #87 on: April 01, 2020, 03:08:05 PM »
Quote from: Dave on April 01, 2020, 02:57:21 PM
Staying cold in the interior should delay snow melt, giving some more time.

They got lucky with that. It's freezing up there keeping the river really low. Some years, the water would already be too high for what they are doing.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #88 on: April 01, 2020, 04:46:34 PM »

https://cfjctoday.com/2020/03/26/more-blasting-planned-at-big-bar-landslide-site-as-river-levels-remain-low/



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“Although Kiewit has been successful in meeting the winter work objectives, removing large boulders and debris, recent modeling done at low water shows that a mass of slide debris situated elsewhere in the river will cause heavy flows at high water, stopping fish passage,” DFO says in a release.

Meanwhile, a team of experts is already developing a contingency plan to move fish during high water when passage won’t be possible.

“The plans include constructing a ‘nature-like’ fishway, installing a pneumatic fish lift system, and developing a trap and transport option to collect salmon below the slide and release them up river,” the department notes.
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Re: Big Bar Slide Update
« Reply #89 on: April 01, 2020, 05:30:09 PM »
good to hear they are still working despite the conditions
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