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Environment Canada has issued an orange rainfall warning for the City of Abbotsford, due to heavy rain expected, and crews are out assessing culverts, bridges and road conditions.
With his city facing a second major flood in four years, the mayor of Abbotsford, B.C., rebuked his provincial and federal counterparts on Friday for failing to heed the lessons of a devastating 2021 flood and provide funding for dikes, pumps and other mitigation projects.
Rainfall warnings issued for Vancouver Island have now ended, but power outages remain as crews work to restore service for thousands.
A new round of heavy rainfall is hitting southwestern B.C. as the region continues to clean up from a battering of flooding and damaging winds over the last week. Here's the latest:The River Forecast Centre upgraded the Coquitlam River downstream of the Coquitlam Dam to a flood warning on Tuesday night.
The cleanup is starting in British Columbia's Fraser Valley as water that flowed across the border from the Nooksack River in Washington state recedes, but the flood threat remains for several BC rivers and has expanded to Metro Vancouver's North Shore.
A rainfall warning has been updated to mention that an atmospheric river is in effect potentially bringing up to 80 mm of rain to Vancouver.
The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacuations in Canada.
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Flooding severs B.C.'s Lower Mainland from Interior, as cross-border flows rival 2021
Flooding and rock slides have cut off British Columbia's Lower Mainland from the Interior as a series of atmospheric river weather systems drench the province, with emergency officials saying cross-bo
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Cross-border flood reduction plan to aid BC., American communities not expected for two years
A cross-border plan to reduce the impact of flooding in B.C. and Washington, where major rainfall hit again last week in the Fraser Valley, is not expected to be ready for “about” another two years, according to Washington State officials.
Since the disaster four years ago, Semá:th First Nation, Leq’a-mel First Nation, Máthxwi First Nation, the cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack and the province signed a collaborative framework for flood mitigation in the Sumas River watershed.