West
Coast
Corridor
Resiliency
Partnership
The City of Abbotsford acknowledges that we are located on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Semá:th, Mathxwí, and Leq’á:mel First Nations.
Abbotsford, BC
The Agricultural, Transportation & Trade Corridor
Abbotsford is a major transportation and trade corridor, with Highway 1, Highway 11, major rail access, and close connections to the U.S. border and the Port of Vancouver.
It is also a key energy corridor, with natural gas and Trans Mountain pipelines serving the Lower Mainland.
Abbotsford is one of Canada’s most intensely and diversely farmed regions, generating $3.8 billion in economic activity annually and supporting nearly 17,000 jobs.
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Critical Minerals
Agricultural Areas
Roads & Highways
Railway Lines
TMX Pipeline
Enbridge Westcoast Pipeline
BC Hydro Electric Lines
Not to scale. Map for Illustrative purposes only.
Why it’s critical to the WCCRP
Flooding impacts national food supply chains, provincial food security, cross-border trade, and regional energy distribution, compounding risk across multiple systems.
Resiliency Infrastructure Investment
Since the 2021 atmospheric river flood, the City of Abbotsford developed a long-term flood mitigation plan.
In April 2023 the City of Abootsford signed the Sumas River Watershed Flood Mitigation Collaborative Framework, an agreement with the Province of BC, Semá:th, Mathxwí and Leq’á:mel First Nations and the City of Chilliwack to make Sumas Prairie more resilient to flooding.
The City of Abbotsford’s long-term flood mitigation urgent works plan includes:
adding another pump station,
enhancing dikes,
adding flood storage areas,
and environmental features that make it fish friendly.
Implementing a comprehensive, large-scale solution requires a firm funding commitment from senior government.
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