Rising waters were prompting further evacuations in central Canada on Thursday, ...
MONTREAL/OTTAWA - Rising waters were prompting further evacuations in central Canada on Thursday, with the mayor of the country’s capital, Ottawa, declaring a state of emergency and Quebec authorities warning that a hydroelectric dam was at risk of breaking.
In a statement on Twitter, Watson asked for help from the Ontario provincial government and the country’s military. Ottawa has received 80 requests for service related to potential flooding such as sandbagging, a city spokeswoman said. The dam is now at its full flow capacity of 980 cubic meters per second of water, said Francis Labbé, a spokesman for the province’s state-owned utility, Hydro Quebec. He said Hydro Quebec expected the flow could rise to 1,200 cubic meters per second of water over the next two days.
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