By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted November 8, 2024 4:40 pm
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Golden Ears Park closed owed to atmospheric stream damage
Large sections of provincial parks successful confederate British Columbia stay closed aft caller dense rainfall and upwind storms that caused flooding and damaged trails, campsites and roads.
The Ministry of Environment says successful a connection that parts of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park astatine Sooke, astir 40 kilometres westbound of Victoria, stay closed to let inspectors to measure the harm and guarantee radical are safe.
The ministry says the park’s closures see the Juan de Fuca Trail, backcountry campsites, the Sombrio Beach suspension span and Parkinson Trailhead.
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It says the areas of the parkland that are unfastened and tin beryllium accessed safely see China Beach, Second Beach, East Sombrio Beach, Botanical Beach and Botany Bay.
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The ministry’s BC Parks website says overmuch of Golden Ears Park, astir 55 kilometres eastbound of Vancouver, is besides temporarily closed owed to harm from past month’s atmospheric stream rainstorm.
Four B.C. deaths were attributed to the record-breaking tempest that struck astir 3 weeks ago.
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