The road to the Portage Spillway has reopened to traffic as Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation's work in the area  nears an end.

Director of Water Control Operations Ron Richardson says reaching this point has been a two phase effort.  First, at the flood peak, they shored up the entire structure by putting in thousands of tonnes of rock to deal with a excess water flow. The second part was repairing the erosion damage found after the water receded.



Richardson says work has been ongoing since last years flooding so that the spillway can returned to its 25,000 cubic feet per second level. He notes the large spillway work has been completed but workers are still doing repairs to the bridge a few hundred feet downstream, should the diversion need to be used again.