Flood waters cause another closure of Highway 75, impacting one Manitoba town
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Continued flooding in southern Manitoba has closed down another stretch of Highway 75, and now one town is blocked on three sides.
Continued flooding in southern Manitoba has closed down another stretch of Highway 75, and now one town is blocked on three sides.
The Town of Morris has been surrounded by flood waters and it is causing detours and headaches for those in the area.
“We have huge sections of roads covered in water. There will be really significant infrastructure damage and we will have a lot of remedial work that has to be done,” said Ralph Groening, the reeve of the R.M. of Morris.
With the closures on Highway 75, drivers are now taking a wide detour around the water.
“Everyone along the Red River will be impacted. We have workers that go to our public workshop in Rosenort. They have a significant detour.”
The detours are also impacting the trucking industry. The Manitoba Trucking Association said it’s added an extra 165 kilometres to cover and a couple of hundred more dollars in gas each trip – affecting many trucks trying to cross the border at Emerson.
“It’s a bit hard to quantify. I’d suggest hundreds, if not thousands. What will be happening is people might be finding other ports to route traffic through with other detour implications as well,” said Aaron Dolyniuk, the executive director of the Manitoba Trucking Association.
