Why can't the engineering staff the city has do this? If they don't have the necessary qualifications, either retrain them or get some who have and can do these projects. Enough already!

nobody wants to be libal. They can do the job. But somebody will whine and complain.

First lesson in becoming a bureaucrate is to pass off any project that might have implications. Hence the consultant enters the picture. Now, if the project has problems, guess what.... Blame the consultant. No bureaucrate ever takes a fall for for a bad decision. If you don't do anything, you can never be held accountable. You and me folks.... well, we just pay and pay and pay.

"Why can't the engineering staff the city has do this?"

Because this is not the type of work the engineering staff hired to work at City Hall does.

I doubt that there is a single City in Canada or the US, for that matter, that does this type of work.
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Where are we at with the "study" or whatever of what is going to be done in that part of the City with respect to mitagating future flooding events?

These things just seem to go on and on and on.

If they will be moving the industrial area to an industrial park, why all this?

Here is a way for the city to save $7.5 million (times 2 for budget over runs):
Move everything off the flood plain. No residents or permanent business on flood plain, no problem. The tracks have been there for over a century so they are fine.

One cannot fight nature. Try and she will crush you like the insignificant entity one is. Work with nature and stay off an established millennia old system of hydro management.
Where ever they have built dikes and flood mitigation systems, they have caused greater problems, often else where, making it someone elses problem. The best course of action is to stay clear of flood plains.

Sounds like no one is listening Loki. I suspect they don't want to. While taxpayers foot the bill why should those with the most invested respond? (River Road industry) The ordinary tax payer, unfortunately, trusts the elected Council to do the right thing. Pity that.

Most of downtown is floodplain, not just river road. That's one reason the library is built the way it is.

As a child here, I remember the "Island Cache"! I remember when there was a mobile home park at the end of River Rd., by the old CN bridge. They moved those mobile homes out every spring when the river came up. and when it went down, they would move them back. After many years of this, they finally decided to relocate. I do believe, it is now called Caladonia Trailer Park, on North Nechako Rd.

There was a small community in the Island Cache, they even had a school. The school building is still there! The house are gone for the most part. I am guessing the home owners decided to move to higher ground. Every other spring, the high water mark, was well up their living room wall!!

We get one winter with an ice jamb on the Nechako, the first one in about 12 years, and this stupid administration, we call City Hall, goes into panic mode, and spends millions of dollars to correct a problem, that is MOTHER NATURE. Wow, we have a city administration, that thinks they can blind side Mother Nature.

Save our tax dollars!! Company's that decided to set up businees down there, should pay there own bill!!

All I want from this City, is very simple!! FIX OUR DAMN ROADS

Are you listening Danny boy, fix our DAMN ROADS!

What a disgrace this city is!! $54,000,000.00 for a PAC, what a joke!! Everybody buy a 4 wheel drive, because you're going to need it to get to your $54,000,000.00, 800 seat PAC!! Soon, you will need one to get to your Doctor, to the grocery store, to take the kids to the Aquatic Center (sorry, you already do), to go to our world class university (sorry, you already do), and the list goes on.

MR. ROGER'S neighborhood is a disgrace!!

I went out for a ride on my Harley on Saturday. Finally got fed up with the horrible roads, and went home, before I killed my bike and me!! Kamloops is looking really good.

I was in Kamloops about 2 weeks ago, and they have a really clean looking City, and NO POTHOLES!!

enough of my rant, DAN ROGERS is the biggest mistake we could have made for MAYOR

The Island Cache properties were appropriated by civic authorities i.e. those who would save us from ourselves, and know better than we how we should be conducting ourselves.
metalman.