![[UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Glenmore Dam is overwhelmed by flood waters and has reached levels never before seen during the flood of June 2013. The Elbow River below the Glenmore Dam runs normally at 45 cubic meters per second, during the flood it ran at 544 cubic meters per second. The Elbow River eventually drains into the Bow River, but not before passing through central Calgary where the river devasted and flooded many communities along the river including the Calgary Stampede Grounds. Calgary, Al](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5da66033210000150e348bcc.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp)
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Someday we might call it Alison’s Aqueduct — the giant drain proposed to carry flood water from the Glenmore Reservoir to spill out into the Bow River.
The early plan is for a pipe that punches through bedrock 60 metres down. It would run out of the reservoir, under the Elbow River below the dam, past Chinook Centre, under Blackfoot Trail and the Deerfoot, and into the Bow River north of Glenmore Trail.