Multiple roads in northeastern Ontario washed out by a storm Wednesday night

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Ontario Provincial Police are reporting aggregate roadworthy closures successful the northeast owed to dense rainfall Wednesday nighttime into Thursday.

Highway 17 closed southbound of Wawa and Highway 6 southbound of Espanola

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· Posted: Jul 17, 2025 1:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Ontario Provincial Police are reporting aggregate roadworthy closures successful northeastern Ontario.due to dense rainfall Wednesday nighttime into Thursday.

Flooding has closed some lanes of Highway 17 betwixt Wawa and Montreal River Harbour and OPP accidental repairs could instrumentality days.

The closure has chopped disconnected entree to Lake Superior Provincial Park, but you tin get to Pancake Bay Provincial Park, if approaching from the south.

The tempest besides created respective washouts successful the Espanola area, including connected Highway 6, betwixt Birch Lane and Hopkins Road, and connected Fox Lake Road.

Old Webbwood Road, adjacent civic fig 241, successful the Sables Spanish Rivers Township, was besides afloat closed owed to a washout.

Minto Road, betwixt Davis Road and Old Nairn Road successful Nairn Centre, was closed Thursday due to a washout arsenic well.

A tempest successful June that caused a almighty downburst successful Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park besides caused immoderate washouts astatine that time, on Highway 630.

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