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Northern highways need federal disaster assistance to cope with effects of high rainfall, says MP

from Thompson Citizen

Northern highways need federal disaster assistance to cope with effects of high rainfall, says MP Thompson Citizen Northern Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton says high rainfall is wreaking havoc on highways north of Thompson and that the federal government needs to provide disaster assistance to remedy the problem. A portion of Highway 280, 42 kilometres east of Split Lake was experiencing flooding on July 2, according to a Manitoba highway conditions report just before 9:00 a.m. and there was high water at the edge of the road for a two-kilometre stretch beginning about 35 kilometres east of Split Lake the previous day. READ MORE

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