Red River Floodway

The Red River Floodway is an artificial flood control waterway in Western Canada. It is a 47 km long channel which, amid surge periods, removes a portion of the Red River's stream around the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba toward the east and releases it once again into the Red River beneath the dam at Lockport. It can convey floodwater at a rate of up to 140,000 cubic feet for each second extended during the 2000s from its unique channel limit of 90,000 cubic feet for every second.

The Floodway was disparagingly nicknamed "Duff's Ditch" by adversaries of its development, after Premier Duff Roblin, whose Progressive Conservative government started the venture, mostly because of the lamentable 1950 Red River surge. It was finished in time and under spending plan. Resulting occasions have vindicated the arrangement. Since its fruition in 1968, the Floodway has anticipated over $40 billion CAD in aggregate surge damage. It was assigned a National Historic Site of Canada in 2000, as the floodway is an extraordinary building accomplishment both regarding capacity and effect.