Water levels on the rise at Sudsworth Park at beavers have gone back to work building dams.
It will be at least another month before residents backing up to Sudsworth Park get full flood relief.
Back on September 3 council approved spending $289,000 on fixing the blocked culvert which haunted residents all summer.
While the installation of a "beaver cone" to prevent future dam issues has yet to begin, flood levels are continuing to rise.
City Engineer Harold de Haan says a crew spent five hours Wednesday trying to clear out an equalization culvert without success.
"It went a little bit higher then it went in the past so the crew went and looked at the over flow path, which again, was plugged by a newly formed beaver dam. They knocked that out and the water level did drop about a foot and a half, back to, not where we like it, but the proper release where it's not flooding the road. I'll be glad when that equalization culvert is fixed and things are back to normal."
de Haan says at a preconstruction meeting last week, Sierra Construction said they would be moving their equipment in this week.
"On the way home tonight I took a drive by and I noticed that they had moved some equipment out there and some steel. They have started putting together the cofferdams around the ends of the culvert. It's my understanding that that will take a week or two and then they will dewater the area and then we'll have a good idea how we are really sitting in terms of what needs to be done."
de Haan says without knowing just how bad the damage is, Sierra Construction is estimating the process of fixing the culvert will take 4-5 weeks to complete.
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