Four years after a historic flood devastated Abbotsford, B.C., the city’s mayor says the bulk of the flood recovery work is complete.

In 2021, extremely heavy rain — an atmospheric river — led to the Nooksack River overflowing in Washington state. The floodwater broke dikes, flowed north and drowned the Sumas Prairie, the throne of Abbotsford’s agriculture and a major economic driver for the city.

Mayor Ross Siemens said the city had marked 300 flood recovery projects, and the majority of them are finished. This has included repairs to landslide sites, the stabilization of the Sumas River bank, building the first phase of a new flood wall at a critical pump station and removing debris from several waterways.

“We've got four that are in play, that still need to be done. But we're comin

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