Ian Cunnings, executive director of regional operations for Emergency Management B.C., told a news conference that it’s important for people to pay close attention to the weather and warnings
Many of those living with a bag packed by the door and sandbags outside of it are being protected from surging waters by dikes that no authority claims. Justine Hunter wrote this week about theacross British Columbia – including some in major urban areas – that neither the province, nor the local municipality takes responsibility for.
The City of Vancouver blames the province for the slapdash construction of the Southlands dike, which was built by the provincial government in the 1940s as part of an emergency works project, according to a statement provided by Jimmy Zammar, the City of Vancouver’s Director of Urban Watersheds, Sewers and Drainage. But when it raised the shoreline, it didn’t obtain easements or right-of-way agreements.
“We’ve tried on a couple of occasions to work with the province to get repairs done, and the province is unwilling to make the repairs or get the approvals to do that,” he said in an interview. The dikes are mostly on city property, but Kelowna’s civic officials have refused to take on maintenance of the structures on either side of Mission Creek: They don’t want to weaken their argument that the deficient structures are solely a provincial responsibility.
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