South Saskatchewan River Flooding Expected; Alberta Rainfall Forces Evacuations

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HuffingtonPost - Jennifer Graham - 22 June 2013

REGINA - People who live in a community downstream of where the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers meet have to leave their homes due to flooding.

The village of Cumberland House and the Cumberland House First Nation, in northeast Saskatchewan, were expecting to see a deluge of water as rainfall in Alberta heads east.

"Unfortunately what's happening in Alberta is going to make its way into Saskatchewan," Environment Minister Ken Cheveldayoff said late Friday afternoon.

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