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CLARENCE POINT FERRY OPERATOR PUZZLED BY SPRING FLOODS
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The owner-operator of the Ecolos ferry at Clarence Point is wondering if spring flooding of the Ottawa River is going to be an annual event. “I am wondering why we are getting these floods all of a sudden,” said Gilles Lafram- boise during a recent phone interview. The &DPMPTGFSSZ XIJDISVOTCFUXFFO$MBSFODF Point and Thurso, has been docked since NJE"QSJMCFDBVTFPGUIFTQSJOHáPPE8JUI the water level of the Ottawa River starting to lower at last, Laframboise hopes to have his ferry service running again soon. “It depends on how fast the water goes down,” he said. “Also if the (access) road has no damage issues.” This is the second time in three years UIBUUIF&DPMPTGFSSZIBTTIVUEPXOCFDBVTF of spring flooding. Laframboise noted that it is difficult to estimate the financial cost for his operation because daily traffic can vary. He added that he got calls, on almost a daily basis, from clients wondering when the ferry would resume service. “They were anxious to have us reopen,” he said. 8IJMF-BGSBNCPJTFXBJUTGPSUIFSJWFSUP lower enough for him to restart his ferry service, he wonders what the provincial or federal governments plan to do to reduce the impact of flooding in the future. “The (ac- cess) road should be built to accommodate higher levels of water,” he said. He also wonders if this is going to be a
Le traversier entre Clarence Point et Thurso est hors service depuis la mi-avril, en raison de la crue printanière de la rivière des Outaouais. C’est la deuxième fois en trois ans que les crues printanières mettent fin aux activités du traversier et Gilles Laframboise, propriétaire-exploitant d’Ecolos, se demande si les crues printanières de la rivière deviendront un évènement régulier chaque année, et ce que le gouvernement provincial ou fédéral compte faire pour remédier à cette situation. Traversiers Bourbonnais a repris son service de traversier à Cumberland. —archives
regular situation in the spring. He remem- bers past winters when the region had lots of snow and there was a huge snow melt in spring into the Ottawa River, but without causing flooding downstream. Cumberland ferry service The Cumberland ferry is operating again.
Traversiers Bourbonnais has resumed ferry service between Cumberland on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River and Masson-Angers on the Qu é bec side. Ferry service resumed on last Sunday, after operations were sus- pended for almost four weeks because of the spring flooding.
Company officials have arranged to have the main access routes to the ferry inspected. A temporary access road is set up to allow vehicles to board the ferry until the main routes are certified safe. For now the ferry service is limited to handling vehicles weighing under five tons.
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