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Shoal Lakes threaten to swamp 60 properties
Farmers want drain installed to prevent flooding
By: Bartley Kives
Posted: 03/25/2011 1:00 AM
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Inwood farmer John Dyck says the road that goes by his farmstead has washed out every spring for the last few years. This is due to flooding of the nearby Shoal Lakes.
INWOOD, Man. -- John Dyck has muskrats living on the frozen marsh that used to be his hayfield. Wallace Morin has built a ring dike around his farmhouse even though he lives six kilometres from any official body of water.
Leonard Dziedzic saw pelicans swimming last summer above the spot where he used to store his bales. Howard Hilstrom has already lost half of his 6,000 acres of farmland as well as one-third of his 300 cows.
These four farmers have the misfortune of living at the edge of the Shoal Lakes, once-separate bodies of water east of Lake Manitoba in the province's Interlake region, that have merged into a single super-lake over the past decade, swallowing up thousands of acres of private and Crown land in the process.
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