Although flood levels are expected to peak in Grand Forks by Saturday night, officials with the emergency operations centre donB次元官网网址檛 believe water will rise as high as predicted earlier.
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Close to 3,000 people still remain on evacuation order in the Kootenay-Boundary region, 1,600 of them in Grand Forks.
McKinnon said that some of the worst flooding was on Thursday night and into early Friday morning, when the Grandby River breached its banks and flooded low-lying areas, leaving nearly a foot of water.
The hardest hit area in Grand Forks remains the Ruckle neighbourhood, where at its worst, water came up above windows mid-way up the sides of houses.
The northern part of Ruckle was flooded when dikes breached Thursday night.
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Before the peak hits, a group of 30-35 trained rapid damage assessors will be judging whether or not the homes evacuees have left behind are safe to reenter once the flood waters recede.
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