BC floods: Abbotsford stems flow of water to Sumas Prairie, dike repairs continue | FULL

The City of Abbotsford has stopped the flow of flood water into the Sumas Prairie, but repairs to multiple breaches of the dike protecting the lowlands continue.

At a Sunday briefing, Mayor Henry Braun said water levels in the Fraser River had dropped sufficiently for staff to fully open the floodgates at the critical Barrowtown pump station, diverting water from the swollen Sumas River away from the badly flooded Sumas Prairie.

Major repairs to damaged dikes had also hit a critical milestone, he said.

“The dike repair work has now reached a point where the water form the Sumas River is now longer flowing into the Sumas Prairie lake bottom, although there is much more work that needs to be completed to reinforce the dike,” Braun said.

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