Advancing Best Practices

Our first in a series of workshops dedicated to creating better flood infrastructure for the future of the Lower Mainland. Our first workshop is all about floodgates throughout their lifecycle from planning, design, manufacturing, construction, operations, maintenance, and monitoring. This workshop was hosted on April 13th, 2023 0:00 - Welcome and Overview of the day 12:47 - City of Surrey's Matt Osler - Surrey's floodgates and framing the issue 34:45 - Solutions presentation 45:55 - Report out from Solutions Breakout Groups 1:02:05 - Closing and Next Steps

Our second in a series of workshops dedicated to designing for flood resilience in the Lower Mainland. This workshop focused on in-stream barriers including the use of planning tools to prioritize which barriers and streams to focus work, and how best to address those barriers to maximize multiple benefits including but not limited to flood resilience, salmon habitat, and asset management. 0:00:00 - Opening and Welcome 00:20:16 - Eddie Gardner (Skwah FN) & Ernie Victor (Cheam FN), Vision and plans to restore the Camp Hope Slough system 0:39:27 - Jason Nuckols (Oregon Tide Gates Partnership / The Nature Conservancy Oregon) - Tide Gate Prioritization Tool 1:08:22 - Liana Ayach (City of Surrey SHaRP) on piloting a multidisciplinary approach to barrier assessments and stream/barrier prioritization 1:23:30 - Riley Finn (UBC Conservation Decision Lab & Raincoast) - Barrier Prioritization Research for the Lower Fraser 1:38:30 - Panel Conversation 1:46:46 - Stream Barrier Prioritization Activity and Discussion About the workshop series We believe that communities of the Lower Fraser watershed deserve a flood resilient future and that we can do it better by working together. We are bringing experts from diverse perspectives to share and create solutions to intersecting issues of flood risk, land use, food security, climate change, salmon loss, and ecosystem health. With recent announcements of infrastructure funding and government commitment to flood resilient communities, there is a rich opportunity to learn from one another, build efficiencies of scale, and create an engaged community across disciplines, sectors, and ways of knowing to ensure that we all thrive.

An update for our cross sector network on all the work that Resilient Waters has been doing for the past two years and a chance for folks to discuss research, restoration, and systems change when it comes to flood and fish in the Lower Mainland. 00:00 - Welcome, Connection to First Nations priorities, and Overview of Agenda 13:05 - Overview of Resilient Waters Project 20:05 - Site Assessments at 26 High Priority Sites, Mike Pearson 35:53 - Modeling Addington Point Marsh Evolution, Shawn Chartrand - SFU ER 43:11 - Colony Farm Flood Gate Effectiveness Study, Zach Sherker - UBC Pacific Salmon Lab 55:11 - Restoration and Prioritization Process for Flood Infrastructure Modification, Patrick Lilley - Kerr Wood Leidal 1:14:42 - Systems Change and Best Practices for Fish-Friendly Flood Protection, Lina Azeez - Watershed Watch Salmon Society 1:25:44 - Report out from Breakout Group Discussions on Research, Restoration, and Systems Change