Spring 2005 Hurricane and Flood

The watershed finally succumbed to the decades of deforestation and loss of soil and yielded all of its remaining treewith most of its near surface rocks.

The narrow rolling valley was carved flat from side to side and almost all vegetation and soil were removed. The upper end of the valley was also extended further up gradient from the spring box location. Along with the reshaping of the valley bottom, the spring boxes and waterlines and all of the engineereremoved by the floods.

Damage to the spring box and water line system in Cas Charles was devastating and complete. There was insufficient material remaining in the watershed for repaline to restart water flow to the Cite.

The Les Forges spring box and water line system which had provided 1/3 to ½ of the HAS daily water supply was also completely destroyed. The destruction of both systems put a large additional strain on the HAS treated water distribution system as a larger population base in the Cite and Corridorwere using the campus water on a daily basis.

Cas Charles Waterline was completed in 2007.

The Cas Charles water delivery system consists of the deepened and rehabilitated spring box collection system, and new 4” inch diameter steel water lines which feeds a concrete reservoir in the Cite above HAS,
various feeder lines throughout the Cite, and down gradient to HAS and additional housing a
Corridor.

Les Forges still needs to be rebuilt.