This year's spring flooding in Fort McMurray, Alta., caused over $228 million in insured damages, according to numbers released Monday by the Insurance Bureau of Canada. 

The provincial government has announced $147 million in funding for residents who are rebuilding from damage caused by flooding in northern Alberta.

Councillors passed several motions as well as what they called the 2020 Flood Recovery Bylaw on Wednesday in an attempt to help Fort McMurray residents recover from the recent flooding disaster.

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo said a boil water advisory would remain in effect for all neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray, Anzac, Draper, Gregoire Lake Estates and Saprae Creek Estates.

At 8 a.m. Monday, evacuation orders were lifted for residents of Fort Vermilion, Buttertown and Beaver Ranch.

As residents of Fort McMurray continued to assess their flood-damaged homes and businesses and began the difficult task of cleaning them this weekend, they also marked the anniversary of the start of an evacuation that emptied the northern Alberta city four years ago.

Evacuation orders have been lifted in some areas of Fort McMurray, after water levels receded significantly in the Lower Townsite.

When residents of Fort McMurray, Alta. are finally given the all clear to return to their homes and start cleaning up from a devestating, once-in-a-century flood, infectious disease experts says they will need to be cautious.

Re-entry plans are being made for residents who have been forced from their homes in Fort McMurray due to flooding. However, officials with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo say they're not ready for residents to return home just yet.

Ice jams can stretch for kilometres, reach several metres in height and cause rivers to rise in a matter of hours, says one river ice expert.