Holding Back the Fraser

In this series, award-winning writer Chris Wood looks at what officials are doing to protect residents in this season of extremely high flood risk. This series follows on last August's Rough Weather Ahead, Wood's Tyee Investigative Reporting Fellowship series on how global warming will hit B.C., causing more flooding as well as drought. Wood's series broke the news that government researchers had determined dikes along the Lower Fraser River were inadequate to hold back predictable flood levels in the near future.

In This Series

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Fraser flooding Mission

Rush Job on Dikes: 'Band-aids'

Thwarting Fraser floods will take 'sustained effort' say experts.

By Chris Wood, 23 May 2007

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Map of Fraser flood plain

We Need More Dikes! Or Do We?

Dutch show new way to handle the Fraser.

By Chris Wood, 28 May 2007

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Fraser Valley First Nations on Wrong Side of Dikes

As waters rise, 'city is protected but we're not.' Last in a series.

By Chris Wood, 5 Jun 2007

Girls Gone Geek in Vancouver

Take in a night of 'nerdlesque,' a burlesque bonanza for the cerebral crowd.

By Laura Kane