CANMORE, ALTA. — The Province of Alberta recently celebrated the new Cougar Creek Debris Flood Retention Structure’s completion, which will protect the Town of Canmore by capturing mountain debris and significantly reducing water flows in the event of a severe flood.
Alberta provided $46 million for the $76.7 million project to support Canmore’s long-term flood mitigation strategy, states a release.
The structure is a 34-metre-high rock-filled embankment dam located at the point where Cougar Creek exits the mountains, 600 metres upstream of Canmore’s Cougar Creek neighbourhood.
The design and construction was led by the Town of Canmore.
The province provided approximately $27 million from the Alberta Community Resilience Program and $19 million from the Flood Recovery Erosion Control Program for the project.
It also approved a $9.5-million Alberta Community Resilience Program grant to the Town of Canmore and Municipal District of Bighorn in October 2020 for the Bow Valley Steep Creek Mitigation Program, the release continues. Funding will support debris flood mitigation works on several creeks in both municipalities.
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