Versant Nord/North Side, Chemin Charles Duncan
Entrance Flood/Washout Damage - Summer 2024.
The purpose of this entry is to archive a weather
flood event that had catastrophic impact within
the Resort domain, for historic record keeping.
i.e.: “Can you remember... What year did that happen?"
This flood damage occurred at the creek crossing
on the Versant Nord/North Side entrance road
Chemin Charles Duncan.
The date of this deluge was Friday August 9th, 2024
when Tremblant got 134mm of rain in this single event.
In Montreal this storm generated 153.8mm and there
was widespread flooding throughout the city. This event
broke the Montreal daily record set back in 1996 by
over 60mm. The highest rainfall amounts in Quebec
were Northeast of Quebec city at Lanoraie, where
220mm was recorded. This system was the remanent
of Hurricane Debby.
What you see below is the washout as it existed
at September 10, 2024, plus a record of where
the high water mark came to at the time of the
flood.
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Obviously there was an immense and sudden
flow of water that generated sufficient hydraulic
pressure to push 100’s of cubic metres of earth,
rocks and road-bed.
Just as obviously, there will be substantial repair
required to reopen the Versant Nord/North Side
parking zone via this Chemin Charles Duncan route,
however, for repair crews there is other access to the
Nord Base side by either a small service road back around
the corner off of Chemin Duplessis or even over the top
of the Mountain by the network of Alpine service roads.
Consider these pic’s as “Before” and when the season
starts we’ll add “After” to illustrate the scope of repair.
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As usual, when Mother Nature takes out things that
were there for decades before, Tremblant typically
upgrades the infrastructure to modern standards
that should be able to accommodate extraordinary
future events, so we will not be surprised to see
a substantial increase in the capacity of water flow
at this crossing.
Here are some Environment and Climate Change Canada(ECCC)
record stat’s for this weather event:
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