‘Climate change is very real,’ says Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith
Members of the 2nd Platoon from Aurora deploy sandbags around and pump water from flooded homes in Bracebridge, Ont. on Friday, May 3.Docks have been torn away, boats left in boathouses crushed into ceilings and so much debris is pinballing down the swollen Muskoka River that anyone who isn’t an actual owner – or working for an owner – of the hundreds of cottages along Lake Muskoka are forbidden to venture out on the water.
At 9 a.m. he presides over an emergency meeting at the fire hall with district officials, police, first responders and now even the Canadian military in attendance. At 11:30 a.m. he holds a news briefing that includes information on the stranded nearby community of Fraserburg and various road closings – Santa himself is unable to get to his village because of a washout not far from Mr. Smith’s boathouse.
On Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who also has a cottage on the waterway, made his way to the region to see for himself and met with Mr. Smith. Mr. Ford said the damage from the flooding breaks his heart. “These dams were never intended to control flooding. They were built for moving logs and for transportation reasons. They weren’t designed for flood control.”
Another local mayor, Phil Harding of Muskoka Lakes Township, has publicly declared that the Muskoka River water-management plan is sadly out of date and needs revising. The plan, which came into effect in 2006, was extended another five years in 2016 by the provincial government. The error, Mr. Harding says, is that they “used data from the eighties or nineties, absent of climate-change information.
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