City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

DRAINAGE

ECOSYSTEMS

• Update the Erosion and Sediment Control Bylaw in 2021 to better enable compliance by builders and reduce sediment deposition in our watercourses. Online reporting tool to be updated in 2021; • Continue to facilitate citizen science to monitor watercourses for water quality

and to identify salmonid spawners areas and fish presence; and

• Participate with NRCAN on monitoring green shore technologies in the aim of writing guidance documents for others

looking at constructing with nature based materials inspections to the Province.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Innovative Infrastructure Inspection Technology – implement drone technology with high definition video and GPS tracking to rapidly conduct dyke and flood box inspections in order to reduce inspection costs and provide more thorough inspections; • Implement dyke inspection app to streamline data collection and assessment and reporting of dyke inspections to the Province; • Continue the Rapid Pipe Condition Assessment Program contract, leveraging innovation sewer inspection technology for efficient and proper condition assessments; • Develop a strategy to revise our design criteria requirements in response to changing rainfall patterns; • Improve the protection for the Colebrook area from coastal storm surges by completing the first phase of dyke improvements along the Colebrook Dyke from BNSF Rail to Highway 99; • Complete construction of West Clayton Pond in advance of development applications in the area; • Update Integrated Stormwater Management Plans based on best available science, adaptive management findings and climate change predictions and climate change predictions for little Campbell River systems; • Update lowland functional plans based on new science, additional monitoring, and climate change predictions; and • Continue to liaise with Federal and Provincial Regulators to allow the timely approval/authorization of projects and to complete fisheries habitat compensation projects.

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

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