The Regional District of Nanaimo is hoping to conduct further climate adaptation assessment, this time applying for a grant to look at risks related to coastal floodplains.
“Storm-surge flooding presents a greater, more immediate threat to coastal communities than sea level rise alone,” an RDN staff report says. Risks from El Nino, La Nina and seasonal king tides are expected to increase as sea levels rise. The RDN says 74 per cent of the region's population reside in coastal cities, towns and rural areas as well as millions of dollars of critical infrastructure.
In 2019, the RDN completed an all hazard risk and vulnerability analysis and from 2018-21 completed coastal flood hazard mapping and has nearly completed river flood hazard mapping. The 2019 analysis provided a high-level assessment and subsequent studies have been “designed to drill down to what this means at a regional and community level,” said Jamai Schile, RDN senior planner for long-range planning.
“The proposed climate risk assessment for the coastal floodplain study is the next step, focusing on risk,” according to Schile. The application requests $150,000 from B.C. government's community emergency preparedness fund's disaster risk reduction climate adaptation stream.
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