The Flood-Way Buyout Program, a Guest Post, Some Thoughts on Risk and a CALL TO ACTION   The following post is quite lengthy but important, as it leads to CRCAG’s specific request of this Government to unwind the fundamentally flawed and destructive “floodway buyout policy” established by the Progressive Conservatives in their first reaction following the 2013 flood. Please read all the way through and help us by acting on […]

The Alberta Government enacted Bill 27, Flood Recovery and Reconstruction Act, in December 2013, which amends the Municipal Government Act. The Act allows the Cabinet of the Alberta Government to make specific regulations to limit development in a floodway (“Floodway Regulation”), The stated purpose of the Floodway Regulation will be to ensure a consistent minimum level of land use control in flood hazard areas is applied across the Province (though […]

NEW DRP SURVEY   Files are being closed and cheques are being issued. We are hearing lots from our members on this and it is important that we collate information on this quickly. Please click on this link to access the Survey. Please also forward the Survey to anyone who has a DRP file.   https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drpupdatesurvey

Our 2023 Annual General Meeting took place on the evening of Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Following association business, speakers from the province and city brought us up to speed on the status of upstream and local mitigation efforts, as well as flood mapping. Throughout the meeting we shared links to resources, all of which are available at the bottom of this email along with speakers’ slides. You can view the […]

This year’s CRCAG Annual General Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m. As usual, we will have speakers scheduled to bring you up to speed on key flood-related initiatives for both the Elbow and Bow Rivers. Although much work still lies ahead for the Bow, this event is an opportunity to socialize and collectively celebrate the milestones we have achieved over the past decade. Date: Wednesday, November […]

For our Bow River members, we continue to hear your concerns about wanting to know what has been going on with respect to the Bow. Read through the most recent updates below and there will be more information to come this summer. Bow River Reservoir Options feasibility study underway The phase one conceptual assessment completed in March 2020, with the consultant’s (Wood Canada Limited) submission of the main report. Throughout […]

Our 2020 Annual General Meeting took place on the evening of Tuesday, December 15, 2020. Following association business, speakers from the province and city brought us up to speed on the status of upstream and local mitigation efforts, as well as flood mapping and regulation. Throughout the meeting we shared links to resources, all of which are available at the bottom of this email along with speakers’ slides. You can […]

Click, click, click, click. Like the odometer on an old junker, the time just clicks by, moment by moment. The years (7), months (84), days (2,555), hours (61,320), and minutes (3,679,200) since the 2013 flood, just keep clicking by. And still not one stone has been disturbed upstream on the Elbow or Bow rivers, to effect the mitigation that this City and southern communities so desperately needs, as it always […]

This week, the federal government announced $8.7 million in funding for flood mitigation projects in Alberta as part of the National Disaster Mitigation Program.   Information on the 21 projects (18 planned/underway, 3 completed) that will receive funding is available from Public Safety Canada here: National Disaster Mitigation Program funding to the Province of Alberta: Projects at a glance.   We’ve provided a bit more detail on the three projects that […]

The following information has been provided to us from the Ministry of Environment and Parks, to post on our website. It provides the current status of the “Upper Bow River Hazard Study” and the “Bow and Elbow River Hazard Study”, and is attached verbatim. The results of some of this work will inform future policy development, including, we expect, the “Floodway Development Regulation” (FDR) on which we’ve commented previously.   […]