Evacuation alert for rural properties near Kamloops, B.C., rescinded as crews clear debris from man-made dam

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· Posted: Oct 12, 2025 2:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 12

Residents of respective properties successful B.C.'s Interior person been fixed the all-clear aft concerns they would person to evacuate past week owed to the imaginable nonaccomplishment of a man-made dam.

An evacuation alert was issued connected Oct. 6 for 14 agrarian properties on Fadear Creek Road aft the determination territory warned of an “imminent failure” astatine the man-made gravel dam located astatine the northbound extremity of Fadear Lake wherever it drains into Fadear Creek. The alert has since been rescinded.

Crews eased the urgent menace of the dam's nonaccomplishment by clearing debris from blocked culverts that had raised h2o levels successful Fadear Lake, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District says.

Officials accidental h2o is present flowing freely and determination is nary longer a hazard of the dam being overtopped.

Colton Davies, communications manager for the TNRD, said earlier this week the interest was that if h2o spilled implicit the top, it could erode the dam’s aboveground and origin it to collapse.

Residents surviving downstream tin expect higher h2o flows on Fadear Creek arsenic the water drains, but the territory says those flows are not expected to transcend mean seasonal levels.

According to Davies, the state alerted the territory to the issue, and described the dam arsenic "unauthorized."

"I accidental that means there's nary permits," Davies told CBC's Daybreak Kamloops.

Davies said it's "definitely an antithetic situation" to spot an unauthorized dam, and the determination territory isn't definite who built it since dams are nether the jurisdiction of the province.

The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship said successful a connection that determination was different unauthorized dam successful the aforesaid country that caused downstream harm successful 2023.