GRANDVIEW BEACH, SK – Most people work hard just to get a lakeside cabin, and now three cottage owners at Grandview Beach are working hard to save theirs.
Last year a hill on the east bank of Last Mountain Lake began to erode, putting a number of cabins in the resort village in jeopardy. Five cabins could not be saved and had to be destroyed. Now the village is working to prevent further damage.
One cottage owner said much of the spring and summer had been incident free. However, the heavy rain in August resulted in large cracks forming on his property, and even under his recently moved cabin.
The Water Security Agency has done some work to help slow the erosion, but Stobbs isn’t optimistic.
“Basically there’s nothing that can be done to stop the actual hill movement. To do that you’d need tonnes and tonnes of rock in the lake and nobody has that kind of money. We’re talking millions of dollars.”
The Provincial Disaster Assistance Program gave the village about $200,000 to help re-slope the hill as it posed a public safety concern. This is the only financial assistance the village has received. Insurance does not cover landslides for cottages.
Stobbs says that now they just have to wait and see if the hill holds – the rest is up to Mother Nature.
“From our perspective the less rain out here the better.”
Grandview Beach is located about 80 kilometres northeast of Regina on Last Mountain Lake.
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