The province released the latest flood statistics on Wednesday and says that almost $70M in debit cards and cheques have already been distributed to Albertans.
Calgary and communities in southern Alberta were hit hard by flood waters at the end of June and the province pledged $1B in initial funding to deal with the disaster.
More than 100,000 Albertans in 30 communities were affected and the province says almost 40,000 have already received immediate support.
Additional stats from the Task Force since the flooding began:
- More than 8,200 applications for Disaster Recovery support have been processed, with 1,827 payments totaling more than $8.6 million already made.
- Approximately 950 Albertans have been provided with long-term accommodations in temporary neighbourhoods in High River and Siksika First Nation. An additional 850 may be moving into temporary neighbourhoods in the next month, depending on housing registry needs.
- An additional 400 are in other forms of temporary housing such as hotels.
- Temporary classrooms are being put in place for 950 students while the three schools most impacted by the floods are repaired.
- More than 80 schools across the province sustained some damage from either rain or floods and classes began as scheduled on September 3.
- All five health facilities damaged by the floods have been safely repaired and are serving Albertans.
- Of the 985 kilometres of provincial roads and bridges closed as a result of damage, 857 kilometres have been reopened.
- Alberta Flood Information Line operators have taken questions from more than 18,000 callers since opening on June 24.
- Information sessions have been held in more than 10 communities to answer Albertans’ flood-related questions. More sessions are being planned for the weeks to come.
- In High River, more than 2,050 truckloads of debris have been removed from the town’s residential areas. In addition, about 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of material have been removed from the town’s river system.
