WEYBURN, Sask. – It might seem early to think about spring runoff, but that’s what the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority is doing.
The authority says it will start releasing water Tuesday from the Rafferty and Alemeda reservoirs in southeast Saskatchewan to make space for next spring’s melt.
Authority spokesman Clinton Molde (MOLD’-ee) says water levels need to come down to meet requirements under an international agreement for the Souris (SUHR’-iss) River Basin.
Molde says water flow on the Souris River will be well above normal this winter and the release will continue until the spring.
It’s the earliest the watershed authority has ever released water from the Rafferty reservoir.
A release last January was the first ever initiated in the winter to provide spring flood protection.
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