RESTORATION
We seek out and support local governments, First Nations, and others to improve flood resilience and salmon habitat. Learn about opportunities we are working on and where we've already had success
OPPORTUNITIES MAP
This map showcases opportunities to upgrade flood infrastructure that have been identified through engagement with communities and experts. The coloured boxes represent those opportunities, click on them to learn more.
Let us know if we are we missing an important opportunity to improve fish passage at a flood control site. To see the map in full screen, more layers, and customize viewing, click the button below to see the map in a full tab.
Joe's Slough Floodgate Replacement
In spring 2024, an old top-mounted floodgate was replaced with a new vertical and automated floodgate. This new floodgate opens 5 ha of salmon habitat in the Nicomen Slough for 11 months of the year, protects the local community when flood risk is at its worst, and opens new restoration opportunities.
Agassiz Slough Floodgate Replacement
In fall 2021, the District of Kent replaced a top-mounted floodgate with a new fish friendly, vertical floodgate, opening up 7 kilometres of habitat and reducing flood risk for the community. Resilient Waters partnered with the District to secure funding from the Healthy Watersheds Initiative and hosted a celebration event to mark the project's success
Bon Accord Creek - Flexi-Baffles
In fall 2023, we partnered with City of Surrey and their Salmon Habitat Restoration Program to install 60 flexi-baffles in a 150m concrete flume on Bon Accord Creek. These flexi-baffles allowed salmon access to 2 kilometers of crucial salmon habitat above the flume. The winter following the installation, a Coho spawner was spotted above the flume for the first time in 70 years. The project won an award for technical innovation in 2024.
Other Map Resources of Lower Fraser
Community Mapping Network hosts a number of important maps including:
Lower Fraser Flood and Environment Atlas
Fraser Valley Watersheds Atlas
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Raincoast Conservation Foundation has a map of habitat potential and fish passage on the Lower Fraser River
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Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance Climate Adapt project has worked on a cumulative effects on salmon on the Lower Fraser and have a map