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This article was published 15/7/2013 (1498 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
River levels in Winnipeg have finally receded sufficiently to expose the Assiniboine Riverwalk.
On Monday, the Red River at the James Avenue monitoring station dropped to 8.2 feet above normal winter ice levels, exposing the Assiniboine Riverwalk, which stands at 8.5 feet.
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Canada geese march past a crew cleaning sediment from steps and the Assiniboine Riverwalk at The Forks on Monday.
It is expected to take days for crews to clear the riverwalk of mud and other debris. The riverwalk had been under water since April 27, near the start of the late spring flood of 2013. That's a total of 80 days.
In 2012, when there was no spring flood, the riverwalk was under water for a grand total of five days, from March 21 to March 25. In 2011, a record flood year across the Assiniboine River basin, the Riverwalk was under water for 156 days, from April 1 to Sept. 3.
-- Bartley Kives
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