Washout at Marble Mountain causes flooding in Steady Brook area
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"Mother Nature definitely threw us a curveball when we woke up this morning," Richard Wells, general manager of Marble Mountain ski resort, said on Sunday afternoon. "Sadly, water finds its way downhill."
Sunday morning saw a large washout on the ski hill, resulting in some flooding on the roads in the surrounding area. This came in the wake of heavy rains across the west coast of Newfoundland on Saturday.
"Friday was such a great day on the mountain for us and all kinds of smiles and whatnot. So to go from that to this, yeah, certainly it hurts," Wells said.
"The mountain did not hold up very well. We lost some key beginner runs that maybe didn't have a ton of man-made snow," he said. "A lot of our infrastructure still held up very well."
"A lot of our water ended up down in the base area," Wells said. "We're going to have to rebuild here now."
Steady Brook's Mayor Bill Dawson said the town was able to clear up the situation relatively quickly Sunday morning.
"There was a tremendous amount of water that came down through Marble and jettisoned across roads and came into the front part of our community," Dawson said. "It came in maybe half a kilometre or so. We barred the road off and brought the equipment in this morning and cleared it up."
Dawson says there was no significant damage caused by the flooding.
"We didn't see any flooding of basements," he said. "It was mostly just roads."
"Most of the water has run away through to the culverts and brooks," Dawson said. However, the mayor feared the impact it would have on the ski hill.
"That is terrible for Marble, actually, absolutely heartbreaking," Dawson said. "We just had the carnival week and Marble was booming, it has been doing great, the hill was in great shape and now they've got to deal with this situation."
However, Dawson has faith that the team at Marble will fix the situation quickly.
"I'm sure they'll get it back up to scratch," he said.
Wells said work to repair the hill has already begun.
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