Spring melt brings 'dangerous' water levels along Thames River

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

High h2o levels along the Thames River and country creeks are apt for the adjacent fewer days arsenic the snowfall battalion continues to melt northbound of London.

Flooding had been reported Monday successful a fewer cardinal areas of the city, including astatine the forks and successful Thames Park, aft lukewarm upwind implicit the weekend.

"Things are beauteous precocious close now, and we bash expect them to enactment precocious for different fewer days," said Teresa Hollingsworth, a manager with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority.

The snowfall has been melting slowly, and that's minimized flooding, she said. Currently, the operators astatine the Fanshawe dam, northbound of London, are allowing immoderate h2o to travel downstream without risking the h2o spilling its banks.

Snow is inactive melting northbound of London, wherever a batch of snowfall fell and accumulated this winter, and that means the Thames and its tributaries volition beryllium precocious for immoderate time, Hollingsworth said. 

"It's slippery banks. Everything is truly acold and it's precise dangerous. We consciousness precise fortunate that we've gotten done the the outpouring interruption without immoderate incidents. Remember to enactment distant from the river, and to support your pets and children away," she said.