Boissevain-Morton

State of emergency declared as spring melt leads to 'water everywhere' in southwestern Manitoba municipality

State of emergency declared as spring melt leads to 'water everywhere' in southwestern Manitoba municipality

A flash flood led the southwestern Manitoba municipality of Boissevain-Morton to declare a state of emergency Wednesday, a municipal councillor says, as the spring snow melt sent a torrent of water gushing over frozen farm fields and washing out roads. The municipality estimates that at least 70 per cent of roads in the southern part of Boissevain-Morton, which is south of Brandon, were unsafe for travel due to washouts and overland flooding, according to a Wednesday Facebook post.