This year we received close to a record amount of snow, and it has been a little colder than normal recently. Of course, this means that there is still a large amount of snow left to melt. The current weather forecast is calling for weather well above zero for the rest of the week, and we are also going to get rain.
because of this, there is a very good chance that there will be flooding along the Rideau some time this week. The people managing the river are going to be busy this week, and the RCVA already issued a flood advisory last week. That advisory warned of flooding, but that was on March 28th, and I am sure that it is looking worse now than it did last week.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority has done a good job of lowering the level of the river recently. Near Manotick, it is lower than it has been all winter which is good news. Hopefully, that will be enough to prevent flooding, but I think that the water is still going to get pretty high. There is also a large amount of ice in the river too, which will probably only make matters worse, since it could create ice dams.
I have been talking to people that have lived in the area for some time, and they tell me that the closer you are to a dam, above the dam of course, the less chance there is of flooding. This is why it is worse in places like the Carleton Golf and Country Club, which is in the flood plane and far from the dam in Manotick.
In any case, it could be more interesting than the big thaw that we had earlier this winter.
