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Originally Posted by Acey
The Red River is far more susceptible to flooding than the Bow, so it would take many more years for the project to pay for itself in terms of damages saved.
Land acquisition aside, I think there are some gross overestimations of how much it would cost, if the inflation adjusted cost of the Red floodway is any indication.
Bottom line, not even close to being worth it... though if you'd be willing to wipe out Fish Creek Park and wanted to build a channel through Tsuu T'ina, you could spend only a couple billion, and only have to worry about saving Cranston and Chaparral, both of which seem to have done well in this flood, no?
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It would be expensive, because you would have to bore a 50-60 km minimum long gigantic tunnel. This isn't like Manitoba where everything is flat.