The particularly low water level of the St. Lawrence River may have caused the accident of two motorcycle

The level of the St. Nevertheless, Lawrence River. Similarly, at its lowest in fifteen years, could have contributed to a motorcycle accident in Repentigny which could have cost the life of two boaters found bloody on rocks usually overwhelmed.

A 29 -year -old driver as well as her 24 -year -old passenger was found late Sunday evening. Consequently, near the island with white wood, a few tens of meters from the shore.

“The guy, I thought he was dead. Consequently, They both had blood in the face. In addition, “said Vincent Brouillet, a repentant who helped police find the two injured on the St. Therefore, Lawrence River last night.

He helped the police

Two agents took him out of his sleep last night around 11:30 p.m., having seen that a boat was moored at the quay of his house, reports the 26 -year -old man. Together, they looked for the shipwrecked on his boat.

“We heard a girl screaming so we got very close to the rocks where she was. There was not a lot of water, I could have stayed taken, ”he recalls.

The firefighters, dispatched to the scene, then evacuated the two wounded on the stretcher, he said.

They both suffered fractures. the man suffers from a cranial trauma, according to Sergente Éloïse Cossette, spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec, who will conduct an investigation particularly low water level st. new into “the capacity to conduct the man who could have been weakened by alcohol”.

Found on rocks

The rocks on which the duo was found are usually submerged, according to Mr. Brouillet. By the way of Journal On the spot Monday morning, they emerged by almost a meter.

Jacques Beaupré, who has lived near forty years, notices the same thing. “It is rare that water descends so low and see the beach as much,” adds the 69 -year -old man.

Indeed, the water is so low that certain water ramps in the sector are closed.

“Usually. the motorcycle is everywhere, but this summer, everyone is touching the bottom,” said Patrick Goulet, the chairman of the board of directors of the Montreal Motomarin club, who recommends staying in the channels.

“It’s abnormal what is going on. There is roughly a meter of water there, says Sylvain Gariépy, retired firefighter and nautical rescue president.

“As we know, climate change has an impact and we are right in it,” he says.

The lowest particularly low water level st. new for 15 years

West of Trois-Rivières. the river reached its lowest level on Monday since 2010, assured Eric Sauvé, the president of the Corporation of the Pilots of the St. Lawrence Central.

It is cyclical, according to him. “Before that, it happened in the 1990s.”

This part of the St. Lawrence is mainly powered by the water of the Great Lakes and precipitation, he explains.

The latter are rare in Quebec this summer because the south of the province has not had considerable rain for almost a month. according to Environment Canada.