On today’s show, we hear more about the $2 million project underway to back up dykes along the La Planche River outside of Amherst. Kevin Bekkers is the Nova Scotia lead for the larger Chignecto Isthmus Resiliency Project. He says the section of dyke targetted by the current project was identified as weak and at risk of failure in case of extreme weather events. Bekkers says the access road and berm project will give his department more options in the case of a breach, and is “part of the contingency plan we have to survive until that larger project is implemented and completed.”
Plus in news briefs: On Saturday, premier-designate Susan Holt will be sworn as the 35th premier of New Brunswick, the first woman to hold that office. And members of the public are invited to participate in a Dorchester Complex awareness day event on November 14.
