to regulate water levels on the Assiniboine were The idea for the Floodway originated with completed: the Portage Diversion in 1970 at a Duff Roblin in the aftermath of the 1950 cost of $20 million; and the Shellmouth Dam and flood that forced the evacuation of 100,000 Reservoir 70 miles north of Brandon in 1972 at a Winnipeggers, destroyed 10,000 homes, and cost of $11 million. [...] After the 1997 ‘flood of the century’, members Roblin felt it imperative to protect citizens of all political parties agreed that in order to from future floods, and when his Conservative protect us from the possibility of much worse Party formed a minority government in 1958, flooding in future, an expansion of the existing Premier Roblin placed the Red River Floodway on floodway was necessary. [...] It was estimated that the cost of constructing This time the ‘folly’ of the day was the a diversion channel around the city would be about integration of a project labour agreement (PLA) $65 million. [...] called for “open and fair competition that protects taxpayers from increasing costs and respects Lessons for the USA workers’ democratic choice.” There were also Unlike the proactive government intervention suggestions that the Manitoba government enter in Manitoba, the absence of a collective response into a public-private partnership (P3) agreement as to flooding south of the border puts North a. [...] According to project designers noted: “we tend to take a more individualistic and engineers, Winnipeg is now protected from approach to these sorts of things.” floods much larger than the 1997 Flood of But that sentiment appears to be changing, the Century, which stretched Winnipeg’s flood because the long-term benefit of public investment protection system to the limit.
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