INNOVATION July-August 2017

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Improving Flood Preparedness for British Columbians

By Kylie Williams

APEGBC engineers and geoscientists are helping communities in British Columbia prepare for hazardous flood events. Armed with new guidelines, professionals are optimizing the most current information and technologies available—including climate change projections—to map flood hazards, assess risks, and communicate them to communities.

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