{"id":93911,"date":"2022-05-05T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=93911"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:58:38","slug":"a-local-mayors-comments-on-a-disastrous-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-local-mayors-comments-on-a-disastrous-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbotsford explores recovery and rebuilding options in wake of November flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s-4\">Earlier this month, the City of Abbotsford unveiled four options for recovery and rebuilding following the November 2021 flooding in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"Four draft options developed for discussion with residents, businesses, governments and stakeholders range in cost from an estimated $209 million to nearly $2.797 billion and offer a range of flood mitigation and protection measures for residents and businesses of Sumas Prairie,\" <a href=\"https:\/\/letstalkabbotsford.ca\/abbotsfordfloodresponse\">Let's Talk Abbotsford's website states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s-2\">Henry Braun, mayor of Abbotsford, said that since the beginning or middle of January, the city has moved towards recovery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"We're still dealing with the flood response but we've pivoted to recovery: we're doing both of those things simultaneously,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s-5\">In addition, the City of Abbotsford has met with farmers, landowners and Indigenous people on the impact of the disaster. <\/span><span class=\"s-6\">But Braun was unable to provide further detail due to an ongoing class-action lawsuit involving the City of Abbotsford and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbotsford.ca\/city-hall\/news-media\/message-mayor-braun-abbotsford-residents-update-november-flooding-events\">impacted property owners on Sumas Prairie<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the four options in the Long-term Flood Mitigation Plan, or to give public feedback on those options, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/letstalkabbotsford.ca\/abbotsfordfloodresponse\">Let's Talk Abbotsford<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s-5\">And listen to the CIVL interview with Henry Braun below:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the City of Abbotsford unveiled four options for recovery and rebuilding following the November 2021 flooding in the region.\u00a0 &#8220;Four draft options developed for discussion with residents, businesses, governments and stakeholders range in cost from an estimated $209 million to nearly $2.797 billion and offer a range of flood mitigation and protection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":93929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,222,225],"tags":[14346,14348,14347,14345],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93979,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911\/revisions\/93979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93911"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=93911"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=93911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}