Nooksack River Floods: U.S.-Canada Cooperation Needed

0:00U.S. officials finally pinpointed why the Nooksek River keeps flooding into Canada's Sumas Prairie, hitting a vital farming area and transport hub in. The Frazier Valley Over the past five years, it's breached twice, once in 2021, one of Canada's costliest disasters, and again, last December, forcing thousands from homes and shutting highway one for three days. The culprit? Canada built up worsen by a human-made bottleneck at the Everson Bridge, plus climate change ramping up risks. Scientists confirmed this after years of studies and models showing sediment has jacked up flood levels over two decades. The river, fully in Washington State normally, spills north during big storms due to geography, damaging farms, roads, rails, and power lines in a car. Narrow Prairie that feeds British Columbia. Thousands and leaders on both sides feel the pain, U.S. Spots like Everson get hit too, but Canada's losses are massive since Sumas Prairie grows

1:01tons of the province's food. Welcome County wants action, but sediment removals off the table. It harms salmon and barely keeps up with the river's deposits, which outpays human. Efforts tenfold. Now the big ideas, widen the funnel. Move dykes back, tweak the Everson Bridge to let more water through. People say it could drop border flood heights by one foot in a huge event, cutting water to Canada. But as shifts risk downstream in the U.S., raising levels of foot over 20 kilometers, so they need federal cash to fix that too. Smaller fixes, like a new bridge span, start this year. Meanwhile, Canada is not waiting. Abbott's Ferds boosting dykes and eyeing a floodway with pumps, though federal funding stalled. Sporter deals help share info, but everyone knows more floods loom. It's about living with the river long term, not just patching for decades. Local news, powered by AI. This is Canada News Today.