Advanced search
Publication Cover
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques Volume 41, 2016 - Issue 1-2
Submit an article Journal homepage
1,371
Views
27
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The 2011 flood event in the Assiniboine River Basin: causes, assessment and damages

Eric-Lorne BlaisAmec Foster Wheeler, Winnipeg, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Jeremy GreshukGolder Associates, Winnipeg, Canada
&
Tricia StadnykDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Pages 74-84 | Received 01 Oct 2014, Accepted 26 Apr 2015, Published online: 13 Jul 2015

References

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). 2010. Drought watch. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s national agroclimate information service (NAIS). www.agr.gc.ca/drought (accessed March, 2015).
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). 2013. Gross and effective drainage areas for hydrometric gauging stations of the AAFC Watersheds Project – 2013. http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/063ee9b6-b3f2-45ab-9bed-d330880064d5 (accessed March, 2015).
  • Blais, E., S. Clark, K. Dow, B. Rannie, T. Stadnyk, and L. Wazney. This issue. Background to flood control measures in the Red and Assiniboine River Basins. Canadian Water Resources Journal. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2015.1036123
  • Environment Canada. 2011. Canada's top ten weather stories for 2010. https://www.ec.gc.ca/meteo-weather/default.asp?lang=En&n=47397091-1 (accessed March, 2015).
  • Environment Canada. 2015. Historical hydrometric data. https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/historical_data_index_e.html (accessed March, 2015).
  • Fang, X., A. Minke, J. Pomeroy, T. Brown, C. Westbrook, X. Guo, and S. Guangul. 2007. A review of Canadian Prairie hydrology: Principles, modelling and response to land use and drainage change. Saskatoon, SK: Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan.
  • Godwin, R. B., and F. R. J. Martin. 1975. Calculation of gross and effective drainage areas for the Prairie Provinces. In Canadian hydrology symposium – 1975 Proceedings, 11–14 August 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 219–223. Associate Committee on Hydrology, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.
  • KGS Group and AECOM. 2011. Options for emergency reduction of Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin Levels. Winnipeg: KGS Group and AECOM.
  • The Lake Manitoba Regulation Review Advisory Committee. 2003. Regulation of water levels on Lake Manitoba and along the Fairford River, Pineimuta Lake, Lake St. Martin and Dauphin River and related issues. Report to the Minister of Conservation. http://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/reports/lake_manitoba/water_levels_main2003-07.pdf (accessed March, 2015).
  • Manitoba. 2011. Flood Bulletins 1-98. Government of Manitoba. March–August 2011.
  • Manitoba. 2013. 2011 flood: Technical review of Lake Manitoba, Lake St. Martin and Assiniboine River Water Levels. Manitoba Government Publication.
  • Manitoba. 2015. Flooding in Manitoba. http://www.gov.mb.ca/flooding/fighting/index.html (accessed March, 2015).
  • Manitoba 2011 Flood Review Task Force. 2013. Report to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation plus appendices, April, 2013. Manitoba Government Publication.
  • Pomeroy, J. W., D. de Boer, and L. W. Martz. 2005. Hydrology and water resources of Saskatchewan. Centre for Hydrology: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
  • Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) Hydrology Division. 1983. The determination of gross and effective drainage areas in the Prairie Provinces. Hydrology Report #104, Agriculture Canada, Regina, SK: PFRA Engineering Branch, 22 pp.
  • Shook, K., J. W. Pomeroy, C. Spence, and L. Boychuk. 2013. Storage dynamics simulations in prairie wetland hydrologymodels: Evaluation and parameterization. Hydrological Processes 27: 1875–1889.
  • Stichling, W., and S. R. Blackwell. 1957. Drainage area as a hydrologic factor on the glaciated Canadian Prairies. IUGG Proceedings, Volume 111, Toronto, ON: IUGG, 12 pp.
  • Stunden Bower, S. 2010. Natural and unnatural complexities: Flood control along Manitoba’s Assiniboine River. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 57–67.
  • Upper Assiniboine Conservation District. 2015. http://www.uarcd.com/PDFs/WPAT_PRESENTATION_Shellmouth_Oct_18_.pdf (accessed March, 2015).

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.