The ninth round of Columbia River Treaty negotiations took place on March 11 and 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Katrine Conroy, Minister Responsible for the Columbia River Treaty, issued the following statement:

Local and regional governments in 18 communities have been approved to receive their share of more than $12 million in provincial emergency preparedness funding to support structural flood mitigation projects.

The B.C. government has addressed almost 92% of the recommendations in the Abbott-Chapman report that looked into the devastating 2017 wildfire and flood seasons in British Columbia.

The B.C. government is calling upon emergency management practitioners, community and First Nations leaders, businesses, non-profit organizations and other interested British Columbians to provide their input and expertise as the Province prepares to modernize its emergency management legislation.

Construction starts this week to replace the existing culvert at Fur Thief Creek with a new two-lane, 26-metre-long bridge along Highway 97.

For the eighth round of discussions about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, Canadian and U.S. negotiators returned to the B.C. Columbia Basin, meeting for two days in ?aq’am, near Cranbrook.