There are rapids where I live in Fort Fitzgerald, four major sets of rapids. As for these rapids cleaning the water, that might have been possible maybe 100 years ago, but not today, because the water is too low. You need a huge flush, and we do not have that right now. On Friday at precisely 1:15 p.m, I witnessed the river breaking up . The water is very low. The ice went and the water dropped in about half an hour. There was still ice on the shores of the river, and that's very unusual. The natural phenomena that normally take place don't happen right now.