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| The premier’s expert panel on flood mitigation has proposed an underground pipeline to divert flood water from Calgary. Photograph by: Ted Rhodes , Calgary Herald |
Alison’s Aqueduct is a tricky proposition
By Don Braid, Calgary Herald October 8, 2013
Someday we might call it Alison’s Aqueduct — the giant drain proposed to carry flood water from the Glenmore Reservoir to spill out into the Bow River.
The early plan is for a pipe that punches through bedrock 60 metres down. It would run out of the reservoir, under the Elbow River below the dam, past Chinook Centre, under Blackfoot Trail and the Deerfoot, and into the Bow River north of Glenmore Trail.
No kidding. Mayor Naheed Nenshi wasn’t stretching much when he said it sounds almost like “science fiction.”
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