1,000 Homes Evacuated in Quebec’s Laurentians Region Over Fears Dike Could Burst

Published on December 4, 2023

Hundreds of residents of two municipalities in Quebec’s Laurentians region have been ordered to leave their homes because of the risk a nearby dike could burst. The evacuation order was issued on Dec. 3 for about 1,000 properties near the Kiamika River in the municipalities of Chute-St-Philippe and Lac-des-Écorces. The two towns are located about 15 kilometres from each other and roughly 125 kilometres northeast of Ottawa. Joshua Ménard-Suarez, a spokesman for the province’s Public Security Department, said government inspectors found structural weaknesses in the Morier dike during a recent visit. “They suspect internal erosion,” he said in an interview on Dec. 4....

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