City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

DRAINAGE

ECOSYSTEMS

• Initiated an environmental assessment for the DMAF living dyke project; • Implemented the next cycle of Water Quality Monitoring for Adaptive Management Framework and the ninth year of the Boundary Bay Assessment

Participated in the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (“BCS”) implementation through determining a funding mechanism for the Green Infrastructure Network (“GIN”) and incorporating the BCS objectives in Engineering Capital Works.

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and Monitoring Program to collect data that is needed for Integrated Storm Management Plan; and

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Construction of Burrows Low Level pump station to assist with obtaining Agricultural and Rural Development Subsidiary Agreement drainage standards; • Repair to Surrey lake intake which experienced a failure in early spring. Works included emergency environmental approvals, innovative designs and multiple parties working together; • Worked with Southern Rail of BC on the replacement of the Serpentine River Bridge and dyke tie-ins funded by DMAF; • Commenced the designs of multiple projects associated with the Disaster Mitigation Funding from the Federal government in excess of $76 million in order to advance works for flood protection, and coastal resiliency to augment the City’s drainage capital project to build the necessary infrastructure for costal resilience; and • Met with the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans as well as Provincial Forest Lands Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development staff annually to promote relationships and facilitate the administration of City Capital Projects through Regulation.

EDUCATION & CULTURE

• Participated in ongoing environmental stewardship by overseeing and managing the P-15 Habitat replacement program for riparian enhancement; and • Continued research on salmonid spawner presence and young salmonids in watercourse with limited documentation to support Surrey’s Watercourse Classification mapping updates to ensure protection of salmonids in our water stream.

City of Surrey | 2021—2025 Financial Plan | Utilities Operating Fund | Drainage

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