B.C. to provide flooding update as military arrives to help
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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, Transportation Minister Rob Fleming and Agricultural Minister Lana Popham are expected to speak at 11:30 a.m. PT
The province is set to provide another update on the flooding and road situation in southwestern B.C. Friday morning.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, Transportation Minister Rob Fleming and Agricultural Minister Lana Popham are set to speak at 11:30 a.m. PT.
The news conference will be carried live above, on BC1 and on the Global BC Facebook page.
The military now has boots on the ground in the flood zone after arriving in hard-hit Abbotsford Thursday night.
Work has begun on a new levee that could force some residents from their homes.
The Sumas Prairie, a former lake bed, continues to be inundated with water from the flooding Nooksack River in the U.S., now exacerbated by two dike breaches to the southwest and the northeast near Highway 1, Mayor Henry Braun said Thursday.
Braun said plans were underway to build a levee between Highway 1 and Sumas Mountain to shore up the larger breach, and that as many as 10 properties could be sacrificed.
Crews are racing against time, Braun said, with another 80 to 100 millimetres of rain forecast to begin on Tuesday.