PROJECTS
We advance regional flood resilience through technical analysis, shared mapping, and coordinated planning across the Lower Fraser. Our work brings together First Nations, local governments, and partners to align priorities, strengthen decision-making, and move from dialogue to implementation. Explore the projects that are building safer, more resilient floodplains.
Highlighted Projects
Flood Toolbox
The Flood Toolbox is a website that will provide key information on flooding for First Nations. This resource will define important terms as well as contain important information about the variety of flood mitigation and adaptation measures available for communities to explore and implement. The intention is for this resource to be as accessible and easy to understand as possible, while combining information and expertise from across the Lower Fraser region.
Room for Water
Each year, in collaboration with UBC Coastal Adaptation Lab, the coalition partners First Nations with landscape architects to produce visualizations that can be used to deepen understanding of specific issues in the watershed. The produced visualizations can be used for anything from high-level land-use planning to project specific communications needs.
Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Analysis
In collaboration with researchers at the UBC Faculty of Applied Sciences, the coalition is developing a model to assess how flooding impacts access to critical infrastructure. By gathering critical infrastructure experts from the region together, the coalition hopes to create a method for evaluating levels of risk to infrastructure during a flooding event. This methodology can then be used to identify hot spots or areas of increased risk.​
Agricultural Outreach:
Farmers and First Nations
The Lower Fraser Floodplains Coalition supports collaboration between farmers and First Nations to address flood challenges on farmland. We facilitate a process that opens communication, bridges knowledge systems, identifies shared priorities, and advances practical, watershed-based solutions that benefit communities, agriculture, and ecosystems.
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Our work is to build a foundation for long-term floodplain resilience and a model to learn from and use in other communities.
Joint Statement for Action on Floodplain Resilience in the Lower Mainland
First Nations and local governments of the Lower Fraser jointly call on the federal and provincial governments for urgent, coordinated action on flood resilience - noting:
- shared risks,
- the need for sustained investment,
- and the importance of working together to protect communities, economies and ecosystems for the long term.
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