Manitoba's Amphibex machines break up Red River ice in record time
CBC News | Posted: March 19, 2015 10:13 PM | Last Updated: March 19, 2015
The Manitoba government says its fleet of Amphibex machines broke up ice on the Red River north of Selkirk in record time this year.
Three Amphibex machines started working on more than 29 kilometres of river ice north of Selkirk in mid-February.
The work is now done, even though the river ice was thicker than usual, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Ron Kostyshyn said in a news release Thursday.
The fleet of ice-breaking equipment will now move to the Icelandic, Brokenhead and Fisher rivers, then to the Portage Diversion.
The province sends out the machines every year, with the goal of reducing the risk of spring flooding caused by ice jams on the rivers.