B.C. agrees to pay $300,000 to Smithers couple who say logging flooded their property
Lawyers for the British Columbia government have agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a couple whose property flooded after a third of the forest in the surrounding watershed was cut down.
The province’s 2015 response to the civil claim denies negligence and denies that the province owed the couple a duty of care. It says BC Timber Sales engaged in a planning process “typical for forest operations” in B.C., including assessing conditions at the watershed and engaging a hydrologist to provide advice.
Chipeniuk said the landscape is now so saturated he can’t use his tractor in parts of the property and lengthy stretches of trails are unusable for much of the year. Chipeniuk said that in addition to the physical damage caused by the flooding,it had left him and his wife feeling what some psychologists call “ecological grief.”
The fairly flat, three-square-kilometre watershed lies in the “rain shadow” of B.C.’s coastal mountains, making it a drier environment. Just over half the average annual precipitation of 500 millimetres falls in the form of snow, Alila said. “When you remove the trees … it eliminates both the interception of the snow and the shading of the snowpack. It increases the amount of snow accumulating in the cut block, and it increases the energy available for its melting.”
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