Flood mitigation project nearing completion

Construction crews have spent the last nine months building a steel berm to hold back flood waters under Glenmore Trail at the Bow River along Heritage Drive. It’s 480 metres long and the vertical lengths of steel were vibrated into the ground up to five metres deep. “It feels like the ground was shaking and anchors for power poles we had to protect so we don’t disturb the earth that is around them,” said City of Calgary senior transportation engineer Alex Saba. Saba says