Sure, and I think the first thing I'd touch on there is that it wasn't just the spring, and that was the issue in Treaty No. 3 this year. Normally when we have a flood event, it starts at the headwaters and we have that flood, and then by July and August it has flowed through the system. There was so much water this year. The eastern portion of Treaty No. 3—Couchiching, Seine River, Lac la Croix—all experienced housing loss, damage to infrastructure on the water, to water treatment plants. All of that then flowed through the Rainy River to Lake of the Woods, and that's where we then saw the level of Lake of the Woods rise, impacting our communities on the lake to the same extent with regard to access to community centres, education, roads in and out of the communities and evacuations. The sandbagging efforts were out of control, and this went on into July and August.
It wasn't actually until about two weeks ago that water was off a lot of the physical infrastructure on the lake, but that same situation is then still being experienced on the Winnipeg River flowing into the Lake Winnipeg system.
That high water was also unprecedented in terms of the longevity within the territory. We just tried to keep getting as much water out as possible, but the infrastructure wasn't in place to get enough out soon enough. White Dog First Nation, for example, instead of sandbagging, actually dumped a pile of sand in front of their water treatment plant to try to stop water from coming in, because there just wasn't time.
Each community now has had costs for roadways and other infrastructure associated with rising water. It was up about six to seven feet in some places.