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Originally Posted by NuclearPizzaMan

I've been looking for studies or reports on flood mitigation for Calgary, but my googling has been ineffective thus far.

These floods have happened before, and they WILL happen again.

There's this.

His 2006 report called on the province to, among other things, stop selling flood-plain land for development. But the report sat idle and was released only last year with nothing more than “minimal” flood-mitigation efforts from the province, he said.


Mr. Groeneveld doesn’t believe any reasonable preparation could have prepared Alberta for this month’s flood, but thinks his report’s recommendations remain relevant nonetheless.


“Dust that thing off, update it,” Mr. Groeneveld, a former Progressive Conservative MLA who left politics last year, said in an interview. “It’s going to take a lot of work to update it. The world’s changed since then, but I think the basics are still very much the same of what we found at that time.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle12771618/

Link to Groeneveld report.

http://www.aema.alberta.ca/images/Ne...ion_Report.pdf