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Preparation for Spring Floods |
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Written by Jim Delgrande
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
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On April 5th 2007, BC Environment River Forecast Centre issued a Freshet Flood Risk Advisory ( link)
to the public advising of a substantially higher snow pack level
throughout most regions of the Province of British Columbia, and a
corresponding forecast of well above normal spring runoff. In simple
terms this means that flood risk to many regions of BC is much higher
than normal, and the possibility of severe flooding is quite high.
The Government of BC began preparations for the spring flood risk
early this year, and recently began dispersing funds to cities and
municipalities to prepare for flooding. SAR teams in BC have also began
training to respond to flood events and Coquitlam SAR is no exception.
The Fraser River watershed show index is at 134% of normal, making it the 4th or 5th highest snowpack measured since 1953. the river forcast indicates that this is very similar to the 1972 snowpack, which resulted in significant flooding .
Information Links
Floodplain Maps
To see if you are in a flood zone. These are very big files!
- Main web page with index of detailed maps of Southwestern BC
- Lower Fraser River Master Plan
- North East Fraser Valley: Hope, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Harrison
- North West Fraser Valley: Tri-Cities, Pitt Meadows, Burnaby, Vancouver, Richmond
- South East Fraser Valley: Sumas, Chilliwack, Abbotsford
- South West Fraser Valley: Surrey, White Rock
- Port Coquitlam detail map
- Coquitlam detail map
Flood Awareness, Planning and Safety:
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