Archive 2008 – Honourable John van Dongen
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September 5, 2008
$16 MILLION FOR FLOOD PROTECTION IN B.C.
MISSION – Communities in all regions of British Columbia – from the Kootenays to Vancouver Island, and from the Interior to the Bulkley Valley – will benefit from a variety of cost-shared flood protection initiatives announced on September 25, 2008 by the governments of Canada and British Columbia. Sixteen million dollars will be spent this year on 25 new flood protection initiatives across the province. These initiatives include armouring existing dikes for erosion control and building new floodwater pumping stations and flood debris traps under the Building Canada infrastructure plan.
(L-R) Minister of Public Safety Canada Stockwell Day; Member of Parliament for Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission Randy Kamp;
B.C. Minister of Public Safety John van Dongen.
District of Mission Mayor James Atebe (R) explains project details to (L-R) MP Randy Kamp, Minister John van Dongen and federal Minister Stockwell Day for Mission's $633,300 plans to raise and widen approximately 1,000 metres of dike along the Fraser River.
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