Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Citation | Septer, D. 2007. Flooding and landslide events, southern British Columbia 1808-2006. BC Ministry of Environment. |
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| Organization | Ministry of Environment |
| URL | http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wsd/public_safety/flood/pdfs_word/floods_landslides_south1.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | Landslides, snow avalanches and flooding events may have devastating impacts on property and can result in the loss of human life. Many such events have been recorded while others only remain in the memories of those affected. A clear understanding of the magnitude and frequency of landslides, flooding and storm events may help in project planning, emergency planning and risk assessment. Thus the importance of storms, which create such events, is of interest to a wide audience ranging from emergency measure planners and foresters to engineers and historians. In order to understand current weather and possibly make predictions of future weather patterns, it is important to have a database of historical weather information. Septer and Schwab (1995) have made an attempt to assemble and catalogue such information for northwestern British Columbia. Their report contains detailed historical information pertaining precipitation, floods, landslides and snow avalanches and damage caused by these. 2. Scope The intent of this report is to produce a chronological list of flood events for the southern part of British Columbia. Together these two catalogues of historically important storm and flood events will provide a better understanding about the occurrence and magnitude of such devastating events in British Columbia. The geographic area covered in this study is the southern half of British Columbia roughly from Bella Coola in the west to Quesnel in the Interior and on to the Alberta border in the east and includes Vancouver Island. Some extreme wind and snow events have also been inckuded even though these did not cause flooding or landslide damage. The June 23, 1946 earthquake has been decribed as well. Unless stated otherwise, damage amounts are in dollar values of the time of the event. |
| Information Type | report |
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| Project status | complete |
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