NEWS

According to the information published by their facebook page and website, the Quyon Ferry has now been reopened. Recall that the ferry had announced its temporary closure last Monday, April 30, because of the spring flood and the evacuation of the village of Quyon.

The Pontiac Quad Club has announced that the Leslie Lake Trail towards Crawford Road is currently closed. Club members will receive the necessary information upon reopening. The other trails are also closed according to the Club’s publication, which says it wants to ensure the safety of its members. The Club says it plans to start […]

Production of sandbag has now been stopped in Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield. However, work to protect the homes from a possible second wave has begun and further work has been done to try to allow evacuees to return home. The water levels of the Ottawa River remain under high surveillance.

The Municipality of Pontiac has announced that evacuated residents of the village of Quyon have returned to their homes. The municipality wanted to remind the residents that only those mentioned on its Facebook page may return and that until further notice the municipality is asking all sandbags to be kept in place. The Municipality of […]

According to the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board, the water levels associated with the initial peak due to natural spring runoff from the west-central portion of the watershed have now been reached everywhere along the Ottawa River. However, water levels are expected to remain high for the next two weeks. Among others, the Coulonge lake […]

Monday May 6th, the Pontiac Sorting Center responded to the Quebec Minister of Environment, Benoit Charette, about the order to cease all depositing and burying of residual materials in non authorized locations (Litchfield) immediately and to proceed with restoring said land as soon as possible. The answer of the Pontiac Sorting Center stated “we have […]

The Pontiac is breathing a bit easier over the last few hours of sunshine and the water stabilizing on the Ottawa and the Coulonge Rivers. Once again, CHIP 101.9 spoke with Phillip Holmes, a councilmen of Bristol, to get an update of the current state of the municipality in terms of flooding. Yesterday, Wednesday May […]

The website Urgence Québec updated their assessment of the consequences and evacuations of the spring flooding across Quebec, which represents the current state of the situation. It should be noted that this temporary portrait was produced using information provided by the Ministry of Public Security and by municipalities. Residences that are no longer flooded are […]

The MNA for Pontiac, André Fortin, address the 2019 flooding and the strain it could have on citizens in the Pontiac who have been affected:

The Member of Parliament for Pontiac, William Amos, paid a visit to the Pontiac yesterday, Thursday, in some municipalities currently affected by the floods such as Waltham, Mansfield-and-Pontefract, Fort-Coulonge and Isle-aux-Allumettes. There, he met with local authorities to get an assessment of the situation. In an interview with CHIP 101.9 on the subject, Amos said […]