Pushes to replace rural N.B. bridge a decade after collapse [Video]

Ten years have now passed, but Donna Black remembers the 2014 flood like it was yesterday.

“When this happened my husband and I and our children, we wadded in water up to this with hip wadders on into our neighbours farm, saving his cattle,” she said, gesturing to chest level.

“They were all tied up in his barn and without that he would have lost his whole herd of cattle.”

A decade later the damage is still evident from the flood in the rural New Brunswick community.

All that remains of the washed away Cherryvale Covered Bridge is a large gap separating the small community into two.

Butternut Valley Mayor Alan Brown describes it as three things: an inconvenience, a safety hazard and he says it’s limiting growth in the area.

“Coles Island Fire Department can’t get here anywhere near the time that Havelock can, but it’s under the Cole’s …