Okanagan Basin Water Board Receives $1.45 million for floodplain mapping

April 10, 2018

Kelowna Capital News – April 10, 2018

The Okanagan Basin Water Board will enlist a radar technology tool to help valley communities plan and prepare for future flood events.

The technology is called LiDAR and it creates digital three-dimensional aerial imaging data to accurately map the landscape.

โ€œThe LiDAR will show where water is likely to flow. It will include modelling of how much water can be expected and help determine vulnerable locations,โ€ said Anna Warwick Sears, executive director of the OBWB.

She said the LiDAR data will also be valuable to community planners and decision-makers in local government and First Nation communities where building should and should not be allowed from flood protection and prevention perspectives.

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