A resurrected B.C.-Washington state group created to find solutions to flooding from the Nooksack River into the Abbotsford and Sumas, Washington, areas has so far produced no recommendations or fixes.

The Nooksack and Sumas watershed transboundary flood initiative was created following extreme flooding in November 2021 on both sides of the border.

It resurrected a similar group that was started after a major 1990 flood.

In both cases, the border group was created to come up with a mitigation plan for the Nooksack River overtopping its banks at Everson, about 10 kilometres south of the border, with the floodwaters travelling north through farmland and exacerbating flooding in B.C.

The flooding has happened again this week , triggered by heavy rains from a so-called atmospheric rive

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