By Tom Mark

RDNO Joins Flood Mitigation Talks For Fraser Basin

Jan 22, 2018 | 7:07 AM

The Regional District of North Okanagan will be taking part in a meeting next month to discuss flood mitigation in the Fraser Basin.

Representatives of several communities will sit down in Kamloops for a risk assessment process for flood and debris flow in the Thompson watershed.

RDNO Board Chair Bob Fleming says the North Okanagan is affected because the Shuswap River is affected by the Thompson drainage.

“You need to get to this to get to the other steps, so the first one is risk assessment. This particular project just involves that, where the risks are and historic data and current information.”

Fleming doesn’t believe major infrastructure work is being talked about.

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“After that it’s flood mapping and mitigation planning and then the investments that have to go into, they’re calling it non-structural and small-scale structural mitigation projects.”

He says this is all in the very early early stages.

“Yeah, I think were in a listening stage. Obviously this is a risk assessment process and we’re interested in how it affects our region definitely and the results that come out of that, but we’ll definitely be moving forward. As well as the federal government there’s provincial ministries involved as well.”

Fleming says they’re a long way from talking about anything like dams or major earthwork projects such as dikes and levies.

by Tom Mark