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Advancing Best Practices for Flood Resilience

There is a lot we can learn from each other when it comes to flood resilience. Here is a series of webinars, workshops, literature reviews and case studies from around the world and locally sharing problems and solutions for flood resilience. Have an idea for  a future solutions webinar let us know.

Prioritizing In-stream Barriers for multiple benefits - Designing for Flood Resilience
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Prioritizing In-stream Barriers for multiple benefits - Designing for Flood Resilience

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.

Literature Reviews and Case Studies

Integrated Floodplain Management - Literature Review and Case Studies

A report containing a summary of the burgeoning practice of Integrated Flood Management with a robust literature review and case studies from around the globe.

Prepared by: Saeed Mohammadiun, UBC Sustainability Scholar 2022

Floodgates, Tidegates and Fish Passage - Literature Review and Case Studies

A literature review summarizing all things related to floodgates and salmon passage including descriptions of various types of floodgates and case studies where novel types of floodgates have been deployed to encourage fish access.

Prepared by: Rebecca Hubert and Dan Straker, 2021

Challenges and Solutions to Flood Infrastructure Workshop

This workshop and resultant report used floodgates as a way to investigate the various life stages of flood infrastructure, from planning and design, to permitting, and implementation, to maintenance and monitoring. We asked participants to discuss the biggest challenges for flood infrastructure in their communities, and ideas for how to improve the process. You can find the workshop recording here, featuring a presentation from City of Surrey's Coastal Adaptation Engineer, Matt Osler.

Prepared by: Mauricio Carvallo Aceves, UBC Sustainability Scholar 2023

Pumpstations and Fish Passage - Literature Review and Case Studies

A literature review summarizing all things related to pumpstations and salmon passage including descriptions of various types of floodgates and case studies where novel types of floodgates have been deployed to encourage fish access.

Prepared by: Oskar von Wahl, Rebecca Hubert, and Dan Straker, 2021

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