Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
It's too early to predict flooding, but the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority is keeping a close eye on snow depth in the Thunder Bay area. Measurements taken Tuesday at three LRCA monitoring stations found the current snow depth ranging between 65 and 84 centimetres. That's 54 per cent greater than the average depth measured on March l over the past 48 years. The surveys were done near McVicar Creek in the city, the Pennock Drive area in Rosslyn, and at Hazelwood Lake.
