2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

DRAINAGE

ECOSYSTEMS

• Continue to facilitate citizen science to

Develop watershed health dashboards to support current and future watershed management planning work; and

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monitor watercourses for water quality and to identify salmonid spawners areas and fish presence.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Advance the design and construction of remaining DMAF projects including, Colebrook Series 100 dyke upgrades, Serpentine and Nicomekl sea dams, and the ultimate Living Dyke site; • Continue to participate with National Resource Canada (“NRCAN”) on monitoring green shore technologies; • Develop a strategy to update City design criteria requirements in response to changing rainfall patterns; • Continue dyking improvements in Surrey’s lowlands;

• Update Integrated Stormwater Management Plans based on best available science, adaptive management findings and climate change predictions; • Initiate a seismic assessment study to consider seismic impacts on the dykes along the Serpentine and Nicomekl rivers; and • Continue to liaise with Federal and

Provincial Regulators to allow the timely approval/authorization of projects and to complete fisheries habitat compensation projects.

Sheet pile installation at the Fry’s Corner Pump Station

City of Surrey | 2025—2029 Financial Plan | Utilities Operating Fund | Drainage

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