The agreement comes nearly two years since floods caused more than $1 billion in damages between the two countries.
SUMAS, Wash. — Caleb Lyle is still fighting the floods of 2021, trying to rebuild a Sumas house for his mom.
"It's a pain," he says."It's just time-consuming and it does get expensive if you can't do it yourself."and inundated the border towns of Sumas and Everson -- damaging 2,000 properties and forcing more than 500 people from their homes."Our flood engineers see this as the most complicated flood scenario in the state," says Tom Buroker, regional director for the state Department of Ecology.
Now, Washington state, Canada locals, cities, counties, and tribes have agreed to work together and share their collective expertise to address the problem. "We can't just be dealing with this on one side. We have to be working together," says Carrie Sessions, senior policy advisor to Gov. Jay Inslee.
In the 1990s, a cross-border task force was created to find solutions after a similar flood, but no actions were taken.There is also no timeline for results, nor a mention of funding obligations. State officials, however, believe solutions will come.Among the solutions now in place are better river gauges and a 72-hour warning system."From what I hear they have good flood warnings, so we get the expensive stuff out and I'll do this all over again," he says.
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