ROTHENBURGER: N. Thompson landowners can’t fight river threat by themselves
I WENT FOR A LOOK at some North Thompson River properties with the mayor and some members of the media yesterday and what we saw was shocking.
One property off Dairy Road has lost a massive amount of land — several acres worth — to the river in a recent slide. The owner says it happened virtually overnight. And it’s not over yet — huge rifts in the ground are a signal that more land will erode into the ever-changing river.
Another property, just north of the intake for the Noble Creek Irrigation System, is also losing a long swath of bank. And it’s obvious that once the temporary riprapping at the intake is removed, the river is going to cut through the point and claim even more.