On L'Isle-aux-Allumettes, on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River, cottagers are desperately seeking a solution to the spring flooding that's become a near-annual event here — but they're discovering there are no easy answers. One possible solution, Leger believes, is increasing reservoir capacity farther up the Ottawa River to help control rising water levels downstream at places like L'Isle-aux-Allumettes. 'There is no easy solution,' said Manon Lalonde, executive engineer with the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board. (Jean Delisle/CBC )Idea was studiedManon Lalonde, executive engineer with the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board, might have that answer already. A Facebook site with nearly 6,000 members is calling for a independent public inquiry into the causes of the repeated flooding, with special consideration to "possible mismanagement of the hydro-electric dams that control water levels along the Ottawa River."

Source: CBC News May 23, 2019 08:00 UTC