Alberta puts up $25 million to address uninsurable flood damage after May flooding

The Alberta government is committing up to $25 million in disaster financial assistance to help residents, small businesses and municipalities that experienced uninsurable loss from flooding in southwestern Alberta at the end of May.
The 2011 Southwestern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program addresses uninsurable damages from flooding due to heavy rains between May 25 and May 29.
The rain, along with higher than normal groundwater saturation due to snowpack melt, caused many waterways in the region to spill over their banks and flood.
“Affected residents and small business owners should first contact their insurance company to get a letter that outlines their uninsurable damage,” the government announced in a press release. “Photographs of the flooding damage should also be taken. “In the interim, while disaster recovery registration centres are set-up, affected individuals can contact the program office at 1-888-671-1111 for more information.”
Environment Canada’s weather station in Calgary reported 88.6 mm of rain falling in the entire month of May. About 67 mm of that came between May 23 and May 27.
Further southwest of Calgary, Environment Canada’s Pincher Creek station reports 92.5 mm out of the area’s entire monthly rainfall of 121.5 mm fell between May 23 and May 26.
Municipalities that applied for disaster recovery programs on behalf of their residents included:
•Municipal District of Bighorn;
•Town of Black Diamond;
•Blood Tribe First Nation;
•City of Calgary;
•Municipal District of Foothills;
•Town of High River;
•Mountain View County;
•Town of Okotoks;
•Town site of Redwood Meadows; and
•Municipal District of Rocky View.