City of Surrey's 2024-2028 Financial Plan

DRAINAGE

ECOSYSTEMS

• The (“SHaRP”) program employed 18 students who worked to enhance Surrey’s streams and riparian areas across 30 sites. The (“SHaRP”) team also conducted community engagement programming at schools, neighbourhood events and city wide festivals; launched a dedicated Instagram account; supported ongoing partnerships with local hatcheries and environmental partners; and developed new relationships with the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (“DFO”) Pacific Science Enterprise Centre to learn about research projects in the region; and • Advanced the project permitting per the BC Environmental Assessment Act for the next phase of the DMAF Living Dyke project; • Completed an instream restoration project in Bon Accord Creek using flexible baffles, which facilitated the reconnection of over two kilometres of upstream habitat that had been inaccessible to anadromous fish for almost 70 years; • Implemented the fourth cycle (second round) of Water Quality Monitoring for the Adaptive Management Framework; and • Advanced the design and construction of multiple DMAF projects for flood protection and coastal resiliency to augment the City’s drainage capital projects and build the necessary infrastructure for coastal flood resilience. • Completed an extensive maintenance and construction program in the Serpentine Nicomekl floodplain, including cleaning 10 km of ditches, installing seven flood boxes and placing approximately 30,000 metric tonnes of clay on the dyke network to raise and reinstate design crest elevations; • Met with staff from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and other provincial Ministries to foster relationships and facilitate the administration of City drainage capital projects to meet legislative requirements; • Submitted a comprehensive funding request application to the Federal Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund program (2023 DMAF) for additional projects that would further enhance Surrey’s resiliency to climate change and sea level rise; and • Continued with successful pilots approved by the Province for the management of streams bound by the drainage districts, that allow stream maintenance activities outside the traditional instream work window (late February – June). This pilot has increased conveyance management in urbanized lowland areas, including the Bridgeview area, and allows for prompt flood risk mitigation. The beaver dam management pilot was also continued to allow for quick management of beaver dams during the rainy months to assist with flow conveyance and to avoid flood risks. INFRASTRUCTURE

City of Surrey | 2024—2028 Financial Plan | Utilities Operating Fund | Drainage

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