State of Local Emergency – Update 9 a.m., Monday June 24

The City of Calgary remains in a state of local emergency due to significant flooding. Safety remains the number one priority for the Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) and partner agencies.

Resident re-entry

Inglewood residents have been cleared to return home for self assessments as of 9 a.m. today with the exception of those homes on 8 Ave east of 22 Street. A recovery information centre has been set up at the Inglewood Community Centre 1740 24 Ave SE.

Residents must visit a re-entry information centre for guidance on doing a home assessment prior to accessing their home. Please visit Calgary.ca for re-entry site locations. Centres will be open 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. until further notice. Residents who have returned home need to exercise caution with water and electricity, and with carbon monoxide if they are running pumps or generators.

Inglewood Aquatic Centre is also now open.

Downtown

The City is working as quickly as possible to restore power to commercial highrise and residential properties in the downtown core.

The downtown core from 9 Avenue south to the Bow River between 14 Street S.W. and 6 Street S.E. is divided into five grids. ENMAX is energizing these grids over the next few days, starting with the area believed to have sustained the least amount of overland water damage.

The first grid to be energized includes approximately 115 commercial highrise and residential buildings in the area north of 4 Avenue S.W. to the Bow River between 2 Street S.W. and 8 Street S.W.

Five Safety Codes Officer (SCO) teams will be available starting at 7 a.m. Monday to visit each building in the identified grid and follow up on email requests. Each electrical inspection should take an average of 30 minutes to complete.

Once power has been restored to a building, owners and property managers can then do a more in-depth review of the other critical life, safety and structural systems such as heating, ventilation, plumbing and gas. Arrangements can then be made with The City to have those systems inspected.

The City anticipates that buildings in the first grid will be re-energized by Tuesday. The additional inspections should be completed by mid-week so those buildings can be opened to tenants and the public

Water

The flow downstream from the Glenmore Dam is now at 170 cubic metres/second and is under control. On the Bow, flows below the Bearspaw Dam have dropped to about 850 cubic metres/second and at the junction of the Bow and the Elbow to just below 1000 cubic metres/second.