It's as if Elsa from Frozen waved her hand and magically iced over the pathway in Sagewood.

Due to the springs and mild winter, water has been flowing from the west side of 24th street and making it's way under the road.

The ice has been building up since mid December, adding layer upon layer of thick ice.

By the second week in January, the ice had gotten to the point where the city had to do something about it.

Archie Lang, from the Parks department at the City of Airdrie, has been leading the clean up.

"It got to a point where we had to do something about it, remove some of the ice so that things would drain properly and we could get ice off the pathway in Sagewood."

Clean up is expected to be completed by end of day Friday.

Lang said there will still be a few pieces of equipment working in the area and measures will be added to block the silt.

"They have to put some silt fencing up down by the pond, and just clean up in general, but the amount of the material that is on the south end there, that's mostly ice and silt and like all glaciers it is going to have to melt. We will let it melt, we'll contain the area on the pond side with silt fencing so that we are not washing any silt into the pond, and all will be good."

With the extra water that will be melting, Lang says there is no more concern for flooding than there has been in past years.

"We've always had a concern with the swaling in that area, and it was engineered actually to be able to flood over the pathway when we have times when we have a large water volume, and it is doing exactly that."

The unseasonably warmer winter has been the main cause of early ice build up in Airdrie.

Leah Crawford - airdrienews@goldenwestradio.com