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By James Peters

High Water

One property under evacuation order, 11 others under alert due to rising Cache Creek

Apr 20, 2020 | 5:18 PM

CACHE CREEK, B.C. — One Cache Creek property was placed under evacuation order and another 11 are under an alert after the creek of the same name rose quickly over the weekend.

The impacted properties are along the Trans Canada Highway, between Quartz Road and Back Valley Road.

Village of Cache Creek spokesperson Wendy Coomber says the creek rose quickly Saturday night.

“We’re kind of early this year. Normally, we wouldn’t expect this until the last week of April, so it caught us kind of by surprise,” said Coomber.

“It’s rushing along like you wouldn’t expect a creek to do. It only does it once a year, unfortunately. The rest of the year, it’s quite a pleasant little creek.”

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Coomber says riprap is being provided to affected properties to prevent sloughing, and engineers are on site to observe.

“We’ve had to supply riprap for several areas, so far, along the banks because of sloughing,” Coomber told CFJC Today. “We don’t want major trees or any other debris falling into the creek because it will all end up down at the culverts starting with Quartz Road and we’ll have the creek breaching over the road if that happens.”

Coomber adds it usually takes the creek about a week to subside in spring.

“We’re taking very, very careful consideration to keep it from sloughing. It’s impossible to keep it from doing it completely but we’re trying,” she said.

The province has issued a flood watch for the Bonaparte River in Cache Creek as well.