Project Overview - Mitigation

The Manitoba Floodway Authority (MFA) has a mandate to help mitigate effects of this project wherever possible. One of the goals of the current independent environmental impact assessment and our ongoing planning, is to identify potential effects and recommend specific mitigation measures. Wherever possible, the Authority will work toward engineering solutions to these challenges.

Examples of potential mitigation solutions associated with the project may include:

• Effect: Deepening the floodway in a particular location may impact on local well water supply.
  Recent Announcement.

  Possible Mitigation Solutions:
  - Widen the floodway in that location instead of deepening it.
  - Lower the pump in the well.
  - Drill a new well.
  
  

• Effect: Replacing bridges across the floodway may cause traffic disruption

  Possible Mitigation Solutions:
  - Stage construction projects.
  - Utilize existing bridge until the new bridge is complete.
  - Construct temporary structure.

   

• Effect: Increased water flows through an expanded floodway may have the potential to increase riverbank erosion. Recent Announcement.

  Possible Mitigation Solutions:
  - Design control structures in a way that reduces water speed.
  - Strengthen riverbanks by using rip rap and other materials.
  - Design flood channel in a way that helps reduce speed of water flows

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