Why would you buy a house on the flood plain.

The whole of the Prince George bowl is on a flood plain. What’s your point?

Every year same thing and it makes news

And to think some candidate during an election campaign had a platform plank about making Cottonwood Island Park a tourist and public campground sight. Say anything to try to get elected, eh?

Junco,

wrong, wrong, wrong…

So is land on both sides of the river all the way to the coast closed?

Conclusive evidence of the bowl being a flood plain.
The geology tells the story. Educate yourself.
http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann/geog12/geog12docs/Unit3Forces/GeoscapePG.pdf

Junco …… what do you define as the “bowl”?

Like a bowl, only part of a bowl is at the lowest level. The PG bowl, typically being the wider but still confined valley surrounding the junction of the two rivers rises up from the rivers to the plateau level.
The river does not rise to the level of 3rd Avenue at Victoria. Yet that is in the “bowl”. In fact, a very small area of the bowl is in the flood plain.

So, what are you trying to tell us? Or do you know?

“Why would you buy a house on the flood plain.”

I think more relevant to this article is “Why would you want to build a park on the flood plain?”

Talk about throwing money away.

It wouldn’t be a problem if they let Alcan divert that water for power generation….isn’t that what they were gearing up to do before the election was called?? I guess depending on who is elected will determine on how soon we will hear of the plans? It didn’t take long after the last election to hear about the HST coming in, did it?

So the Fraser has been diverted to Alcan? Wow that is some tunnel.

I went for a run last week and ran along several sections of paved pathway along the Ottawa River that were flooded and it left me wondering why we ever put the nations capital on a flood plain. Heck, sections of the pathway in the shadow of Parliament Hill almost had water covering it and this is on a river that has water control systems on it.

I think it’s pretty safe to say that if your city sits beside a river there will be a time when you have to deal with flooding. That doesn’t mean that you write-off the area and never develop it, it just means that you are smart about how you develop it.

If the area gets habitually wiped out every year, then perhaps it’s not the best idea to put a factory or house beside it. If the flooding is less predictable or only impacts an area for a few weeks, then perhaps you encourage development that won’t be impacted in a significant way when the flooding occurs.

It comes down to risk management and realizing that predictions of risk aren’t perfect. If you do a good job of managing the risk, then over the long term your city will benefit. If you don’t, then you won’t.

Oh and for the record, I quite enjoyed Cottonwood Park when I lived in PG, with the exception of when it was closed due to flooding or when I had problems breathing from all of the pollution coming from the immediately adjacent industry.

But NMG, this is Prince George. The city with a planning department that has a grand scheme to invite the Fraser river back to where the downtown is. What could possibly go wrong with this idea ?

GO SENS!

“Every year same thing and it makes news”
Think of it more like a public service announcement. For example, perhaps I was going to take my mom to the park today. I read the “news” and voila! My plans change. Isn’t that nice? :)

Gus “So, what are you trying to tell us? Or do you know?”

Gus don’t be so facetious, if you took the time to fully read the comment thread from start to finish you would better understand what I am commenting about and to whom, and it certainly wasnt to you. I see a pattern here where you zero in on my comments and insert your all knowing pseudo intellectual google knowledge and then top it off with a subtle FY. What are you trying to tell me? Or do you even know your own modus operandi?

Indeed middle finger, GO SENS! I’m hoping to catch some second round action at Scotiabank Place if the schedule permits. I must say, the Sens are probably one of the best managed organizations I’ve ever spent money to support. They do an incredible job of connecting with the city and with putting out a product that people will support.

Okay, now back to regular programming, LOL . . .

At least it will wash away the dog crap.