Flooding is a yearly concern for many Moose Jaw residents, though this year's melt is expected to be low. 

Ice jams typically are the culpric when dealing with flooding down in Wakamow, and along the river.


Fire Chief, Rod Montgomery:

"most of the snow is off the fields now, and there doesn't appear to be a lot of run off, so I can't see a lot more input to the water shed than what's already there."

Anyone who lives in the valley, understands to be vigilant said Montgomery. "You live in a river valley, and the people down in the valley understand, at any given point that river can overflow it's banks. Whether it's ice jams, it could be heavy rains, etc. that could cause flooding in that area. They have to be always vigilant. Most of the home owners now are well prepared. They've made retaining walls. Some haven't, because the water doesn't seem to effect their property. They're fairly well educated on what it looks like flooding in the river valley."

According to the latest report from the Water Security Agency most of the province’s major reservoirs are expected to be adequate in 2019.

"There's always the great unknown, if there will be any type of ice break up in the river valley, where you get some ice jams. But, you need to have flow behind that, and right now what we're seeing isn't all that high", said Montgomery.