Keep Your Children Away From Swollen Streams and Rivers
While the snow may be all but gone around Uxbridge the Streams and rivers are still very dangerous. The water level where these videos were taken back in 08 rose close to 1 foot overnight (Wed April 02nd) and likely would have risen even more if the temperature had not dropped.
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It's Amazing How Much The 25+ foot tree in the water was washed down river and through the dam. It became lodged on an island in the river that was under about 1 foot of water. Last year three full size telephone poles that had formed a bridge somewhere up stream came down through the dam. This year two of them were washed away while the third remains lodged in the pond below the dam.
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Normal Flow is about 3 to 4 inches in depth over the dam.
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While the current flow through the dam is about 1 foot. The Flow through the dam at the time of these videos was about about 3 feet in depth. Just How Watch for the chunk of ice about 4 1/4 seconds into this segment.
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Hi Kathy - This is a very valuable post. Further south, in Toronto and surrounding area, some of the major rivers where people need to be very careful at this time of year are the Rouge River, Don River and Humber River.