Winnipeg is in a costly battle against erosion and riverbank failure
WINNIPEG — Brian Evans has a front-row seat to the slow but steady, and seemingly unstoppable, erosion that is eating away at Winnipeg’s riverbanks.
The shoreline of his property on the Red River is secure for now, thanks to stabilization work done after the 1997 flood that swamped much of the river valley. But as he gazes across the Red, he sees the opposite bank receding.
“You can see where there’s easily 10 to 12 feet that have disappeared in the last couple of years,” Evans says.
“When you go down the river, the areas that have not received (stabilization), the bank has peeled back sufficiently enough where large trees have fallen into the water.”