Flood Warning Update Issued April 4, 2025

Message # 2025-09
Issued: 4:00 pm, Friday April 4, 2025

Flood Warning Update - Issued to residents throughout the jurisdiction of Otonabee Conservation. 

Flooding in low lying, flood-prone areas will worsen over the coming days along the Trent-Severn Waterway (Kawartha Lakes, Otonabee River and Rice Lake) and local watercourses, including the Ouse River, Indian River and tributaries to the Otonabee River. These areas are experiencing extremely hazardous water levels and flows.

Risks to public safety and property are particularly high along the Trent-Seven Waterway and may include:

·       Potential for significant basement flooding;

·       Possibility of 1st floor flooding in the lowest parts of flood-affected areas;

·       Flooded roads causing unsafe driving conditions;

·       Potential for road access to be limited or impossible; and,

·       Flooding creating even more complex issues for flood-affected populations that are currently without electrical power.

Everyone is advised to stay away from all shorelines and watercourses. 

Residents are advised to monitor conditions and take appropriate action to protect themselves and their property against imminent or occurring flooding along all watercourses including the Kawartha Lakes within the jurisdiction of Otonabee Conservation, Otonabee River, and Rice Lake. Water levels can be monitored at Trent-Severn Waterway, Water Survey of Canada and Otonabee Conservation websites.

For more information about Flood Forecasting and Warning visit the Water and Levels and Flooding page on our website. To receive flood messages directly, subscribe on our website.

This FLOOD WARNING message will expire Thursday, April 10, 2025, unless up-dated earlier.

 Gord Earle | Flood Forecasting & Warning Duty Officer | 705-745-5791 x EXT 214

250 Milroy Drive, Peterborough, ON K9H 7M9 | orcafloodduty@otonabeeconservation.com

Note: A Flood Warning is defined as a notice declaring that flooding is imminent or occurring. The Flood Warning is issued based upon information received by the Conservation Authority's weather and water level monitoring systems and other information sources, and is intended to provide notice to municipalities, water managers and other flood emergency management services and residents that action is required on their part.