High water levels in the Fraser River not unexpected for this time of year
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The Fraser River has been on the rise recently, as a Local State of Emergency was called and an evacuation alert was recently issued for residents in some parts of Farrell Street next to Paddlewheel Park.
The alert has since been rescinded and Jonathan Boyd, Hydrologist with the BC River Forecast Centre says the levels, which peaked at about 9.5 metres over the weekend, were caused by rapid snowpack melting.
“It was an above-average snowpack for the headwaters of the Fraser River up the Robson Valley and up the McGregor River and the High Streamflow that we did issue was primarily related to warm temperatures at the very end of May and the first few days of June,” Boyd explained.