(Baie-Saint-Paul) The Quebec government is providing nearly a million dollars to Baie-Saint-Paul to improve the municipality’s resilience to floods like the one that shook the city in the spring.
The Minister of Municipal Affairs, Andrée Laforest, made the announcement Wednesday morning in the city of the Charlevoix region.
This envelope of $917,320 will be used to carry out work to secure a flood protection wall, the government explains in a press release.
A study will be carried out to carry out the work on the wall, which borders the Du Gouffre River in downtown Baie-Saint-Paul.
The Rivière du Gouffre had suddenly come out of its bed at the beginning of May, cutting the municipality in two with the closure of the Leclerc bridge.
The event had led to several evacuations, but especially to the deaths of two firefighters, Régis Lavoie and Christopher Lavoie, who had disappeared in the waters.