Emcon Services operations manager Bill Pattyson, the road maintenance contractor for the City of Quesnel, said the West Fraser Road at QuesnelB次元官网网址檚 Deep Creek will remain closed indefinitely after flooding destroyed roughly 150 metres of roadway.

B次元官网网址淚n this instance the ministry has undertaken the work themselves [to repair the road],B次元官网网址� Pattyson said. B次元官网网址淲hat we do is we follow the ministryB次元官网网址檚 direction when a big washout like this happens. They tell us the scope of work and what they want us to do and then we will mobilize equipment and start to repair it.B次元官网网址�

Emcon Services, he said, is working in roughly a dozen other places where roads are completely washed out and bridges have been damaged.

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B次元官网网址淲eB次元官网网址檙e currently mobilizing equipment from as far away as Fort Nelson into the area B次元官网网址� excavators, trucks B次元官网网址� and if it drags on we will start mobilizing other large machines from Merritt, where our headquarters is,B次元官网网址� he said.

Flooding in QuesnelB次元官网网址檚 Deep Creek area, located 15 kilometres south of the city, is extensive, he said.

B次元官网网址淐urrently about 150 metres of road is totally missing. ItB次元官网网址檚 just gone,B次元官网网址� he said. B次元官网网址淎 kilometre south of that we have another section, about 50 metres is failing as we speak, and on the Deep Creek hill itself we have a 400-metre section that is sliding into the river.B次元官网网址�

In the CRD, the Nazko area has been hit the worst with 120 properties currently under evacuation order.

Those in need of information, help or sandbags are urged to call the emergency operations centreB次元官网网址檚 public information line at 1-866-759-4977.