While B.C. dike design levels are set to protect against a 1\u002Din\u002D200\u002Dyear flood, dike levels in many parts of the Fraser Valley are not high enough.
that the Tiger Dam will need to be deployed along 700 metres at the eastern end of the 3.5-kilometre Mission dike near Harbour Avenue and Horne Street.Advertisement 5The Fraser River at Hatzic Lake near Mission on June 3, 1948 after a dike broke during the record flooding of 1948. Dave Buchan/Vancouver Sun [PNG Merlin Archive]Flood preparations were also continuing downriver Friday, where Barnston Island remained on evacuation alert.
“Chief and council will make every attempt to provide as much advance notice as possible, but changing weather conditions could mean little or no notice, so residents and visitors are asked to be prepared,” she said.Studies have found B.C. First Nations are particularly
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