VICTORIA — The Government of British Columbia is touting the completion of 24 disaster mitigation projects to make communities across the province safer to live in.
The projects have a total value of roughly $11 million and were funded through the National Disaster Mitigation Program, a cost-sharing endeavour between the federal, provincial and territorial governments.
The most expensive project was the watershed flood mapping of the Thompson River with the Fraser Basin Council at a cost of over $2.5 million. The project provided a detailed flood map for priority areas to improve one of the most essential tools used in hazard and risk reduction decision-making, according to a news release.
Other projects include the $903,000 Pathways to Action Report created with the Fraser Basin Council, the $680,449 adaptation of the Nsiga’a Nation to the impacts of climate change with the Nsiga’a Lisims Government and the $776,820 B.C. Floodplain Foundational Data Acquisition with GeoBC.
Projects are divided into four funding streams: risk assessments, flood mapping, mitigation planning, and investment in non-structural or small-scale structural mitigation.
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