Annual Report 2021 21 20 City of Chilliwack STRATEGIC GOAL #2 CONTINUED: GOOD STEWARDSHIP OF MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE Maintaining roads, water and sewer systems, civic facilities and municipal fleet. HOWWE WILL GET THERE WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2021 FLOOD PROTECTION Maintain dikes to provincial standards, ensure adequate drainage and maximize funding opportunities ✓ 78,000 linear channel metres of drainage watercourses cleaned with DFO and FLNRORD approval. ✓ All dikes, pump stations and flood boxes inspected and maintained prior to freshet and high winter stream flows. ✓ No gravel removed from Vedder River in 2021 (removals occur in even-numbered years to protect pink salmon). ✓ Received funding through the Federal Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund to raise the West Dike (right bank) between Sumas Prairie Road and the Vedder Canal. The design-build process is underway. ✓ Received funding through the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund administered by UBCM for Fraser River Bank Protection, downstream of CHIP intake; project to be completed by spring 2022 and for a Vedder River Flood Risk Assessment, study to be completed by summer 2022. WATER QUALITY Ensure an adequate water supply and maintain potable water standards ✓ Stage 2 summer watering restrictions implemented. ✓ 1,750 water samples tested through drinking water quality testing program. ✓ Semi-annual water main flushing, reservoir cleaning and production well repairs completed. STRATEGIC GOAL #3: ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Encourage waste diversion and a “zero waste” philosophy, while working to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases and protect waterways, riparian areas and the airshed. HOWWE WILL GET THERE WHAT WE ACHIEVED IN 2021 PROTECT WATERWAYS AND RIPARIAN AREAS Enhance fish habitat and maintain Riparian Areas Protection Regulation standards ✓ Effluent above and beyond minimum provincial standard requirements. ✓ Inlet Works upgrade at the Wastewater Treatment completed. ✓ Completed backup power and electrical upgrades at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. ✓ Collaborated with local businesses and community volunteers to remove invasive species and replant 1,500 native trees and shrubs along creeks at 15 locations. ✓ Mitigative measures undertaken to preserve and enhance fish habitats during open channel drainage maintenance. ✓ Enforcement of Development Permit Area #3 rules. ✓ Enforcement of riparian covenants. ✓ Commenced a project to improve the accuracy of headwater stream mapping in hillside areas. AIR QUALITY Protect the airshed, measure greenhouse gas emissions and implement energy efficiency opportunities where feasible ✓ Followed provincial Agricultural Environmental Management Code of Practice. ✓ Updates to the Corporate and Community Climate Action Plans underway; studies to be completed by early 2022. ✓ Utilized methane from Wastewater Treatment Plant to run biogas boiler heat digesters. ✓ Organic Food Waste Pre-Processing and Anaerobic Digester #4 procurement process underway. ✓ Planned expansion of the gas extraction system at the Bailey Landfill with the installation of three horizontal gas collectors. ✓ Worked with the Ministry of Environment to respond to air quality complaints. ✓ Updated the Open Burning Bylaw with new restrictions to reduce smoke. ✓ Planted 22,000 climate resilient tree species in Mt. Thom Park with funding through a federal grant.
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