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Is a new dam on the Bow River the answer to southern Alberta's water woes? Those who depend on irrigation say it could help with drought but environmentalists have big concerns.
Alberta’s government has chosen Hatch Ltd. to study the feasibility of a new water reservoir in southeastern Alberta.
Everywhere he looked — except up at the sky — all Mike Drew saw on his last big drive was mist. And what a big drive it was.
The province's two largest irrigators say a smaller than normal snowpack at the end of last winter, combined with high temperatures early in the spring and little to no rainfall throughout the summer, has left their systems with one of the lowest water levels in recent memory.
During the August 15 M.D. of Taber Council Meeting, Richard Phillips, general manager for the Bow River Irrigation District, gave a presentation to Council on the Eyremore Dam Project.