Calls for more to be done about Two Mile landslide risk
Global News
A landslide early warning system is being implemented to protect lives in Sicamous, but there are no plans to build any of the proposed landslide mitigation infrastructure.
A landslide early warning system is being implemented to protect lives in the Two Mile neighbourhood of Sicamous, but the regional district has no plans to build any of the proposed landslide mitigation infrastructure.
The area is considered to be at high risk of a post-wildfire landslide in 2022 or 2023 after the Two Mile Road wildfire burnt upslope from the neighbourhood last summer.
So as the spring melt starts — a high-risk time for slides — some residents are on edge and calling for more to be done.
“We are pretty disappointed in our government for the fact that they won’t help us out,” said Art Jones.
His wife Wendy Jones agrees.
“It is a disappointment. We put our life savings into our homes and to have them all floating away down to the lake is very disheartening,” Wendy Jones said.
“We are kind of sitting ducks at (this) point. Nothing we can really do about it, but just be prepared.”
The pair live in the Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park, where officials are particularly concerned a slide could do damage.