Two Mile Road wildfire near Sicamous in July 2021 (Photo credit: BC Wildfire Service)

By Canadian Press and Vernon Matters Staff

'unnerving' for residents

New system to alert residents of possible landslide

Mar 23, 2022 | 12:45 PM

Work has begun in the hills south of Sicamous to build an early warning system to alert a nearby mobile home community to the threat of a landslide.

The District of Sicamous says the province is funding the $30,000 warning system in the Wiseman Creek area near the Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park.

Engineers have determined the slopes are unstable after the Two Mile Road wildfire damaged the area last summer.

There’s concern that spring melt and rainfall will increase the likelihood of a landslide that the engineering report already calculates at close to 100 per cent sometime in the next two years.

“It’s really unnerving to lay in bed at night and hear funny noises, and thinking ‘okay, is it happening now?’ It’s scary to know that everything could be wiped away including yourself,” resident Wendy Jones told Global Okanagan.

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The new system uses weather data to determine if an evacuation alert or order should be issued and is expected to be completed by April, just ahead of the spring rains that could trigger a slide.