About the Flood Management Strategy Initiative
The Lower Mainland Flood Management Strategy (LMFMS) initiative was aimed at creating a region-wide strategy to reduce flood risk and improve the flood resilience of communities along the lower Fraser River and south coast. Phase 2 of the work wrapped up in 2023 with completion of several technical projects and two final reports.
Fill Knowledge Gaps
Improve Public Awareness
Identify Shared Solutions
Reduce Flood Risk
Phases of Strategy Development
PHASE 2 2016-2023
Informing a Flood Strategy
Phase 2 highlights:
- Hydraulic Modelling and Mapping in BC’s Lower Mainland
- Lower Mainland Flood Risk Assessment
- Flood and Environment Atlas
- FloodWise website
- Lower Mainland Dikes: An Analysis of Freeboard and Vulnerability
Final reports:
- Pathways to Action for Flood Risk Reduction and Resilience
- Synthesis of Technical Analysis
2023 FORWARD
Next Steps
The Province of BC will follow up on the Pathways to Action report with other orders of government. The Pathways report encourages:
- Government-to-government work to co-create flood risk reduction actions, plans and/or strategies in alignment with BC Flood Strategy
- Early emphasis to safeguard Lower Mainland critical infrastructure and essential services
Flood Projects in BC
Latest Updates
BC Flood Strategy
— BC Flood Strategy — The Province of British Columbia is working on a new BC Flood Strategy to help to reduce flood risks and enhance the resilience of communities to future flood events. An Intentions Paper called From Flood Risk to Resilience was the
Resource Profile: Flood Scenarios
— Resource Profile: Flood Modelling Scenarios — May 2022 The Lower Fraser 2D Flood Model was used to simulate over 20 different scenarios to reflect floods of different sizes, projected climate change impacts and hypothetical sample dike breaches. Find an overview of this work in
Resource Profile: BC Flood Investigations Reports
— Resource Profile: BC Flood Investigations Reports — May 2022 Our Flood Management Resources section is set to expand, so be sure to loop back – and offer your suggestions on resources colleagues will want to read and reference, such as Investigations in Support of