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Manitoba ’ s Red River Valley has always been a threat to the city of Winnipeg . In 1997 a major flood , deemed “ The Flood of the Century ,” forced evacuations and threatened to breach the Red River Floodway . In its wake , the Governments of Manitoba and Canada decided that the time had come to upgrade public infrastructure to enhance the floodway ’ s abilities and better protect Winnipeg .
The result of this was the $ 665 million Red River Floodway Expansion Project , a complex flood protection project , jointly funded by the governments of Canada and Manitoba , to improve Winnipeg ’ s flood protection by increasing the capacity of floodway channel , construction and redesign of highway and railway bridges , improving the Inlet Control Structure , expanding the Outlet Structure , expanded the West Dike and various utility modification . With the project ’ s completion in March
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