Kamloops city staff have suggested to council that it consider a study of Peterson Creek.
Mayor Ken Christian says it makes sense. “The advice that we have from our drainage engineer is that it’s perhaps undersized when looking at climate change and we need to study that channel and what it looks like.”
“So that we don’t have a catastrophic overflow at any of those pinch-points. So $150,000 towards looking at that coming up this year.”
The 2017 Peterson Creek Master Watershed Plan states that the area where it flows downtown was identified as a reach where the channel is in poor condition and is too low at many locations to contain the peak flows.
Kamloops city staff say it needs to determine how to improve the capacity of Peterson Creek to safely convey 100-year stormwater flows to the South Thompson River. The city will look to apply for funding under the Flood Risk Assessment, Mapping and Mitigation Planning stream of the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund for the Downtown Peterson Creek Study.