'Monumental amount of debris': Cars, couches, fuel tanks remaining after B.C. floods

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Unprecedented flooding in southwestern British Columbia has left hard-hit communities dealing with the disposal of debris like drywall, insulation, silt-soaked mattresses, couches and kitchen cupboards damaged by water that gutted homes and businesses.

Lia Bergen, who lives in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford, returned to her home nearly two weeks after an evacuation order from a trio of powerful storms last month to discover the destruction of furniture, two freezers, a fridge, two cars, and her husband's heavy-duty work tools.

Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said a second waste transfer station is expected to open for “mountains” of trash left outside homes after record rainfall killed thousands of livestock and devastated a prime agricultural area of the province. “We have to get all of this junk out of the ditches because we're not through the rainy season yet so the water can actually drain out to the Barrowtown station or the Sumas Canal in a way that doesn't reflood some of these farms.”

Princeton Mayor Spencer Coyne said the city of 3,000 in the Similkameen region has its own landfill contracted bins for trash from a local company.

 

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Wow ya think CTV NEWS...some how this doesn't seem like a news worthy story....its like saying everyone the dump has garbage in it....no shit

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