Crews begin ‘scalping’ debris from Highwood River

Jeff Gaulin of Tervita provided an update as the company’s heavy equipment was busy Wednesday along the banks of the Highwood River, scalping the waterway back to the state it was before the June flooding.

Photograph by: Colleen De Neve , Calgary Herald

Crews begin ‘scalping’ debris from Highwood River

Goal is to restore waterway to normal

By Erika Stark, Calgary Herald August 15, 2013

HIGH RIVER — Gravel, silt and debris are being scraped away from the banks of the Highwood River in an effort to return the waterway to its pre-flood capacity levels.

Roughly 16,000 cubic metres of material will be removed, or “scalped,” from one of six riverbank sites within High River by the end of the week, according to Tervita, the company in charge of remediation in the town.

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