Matsqui Trail Regional Park (above) in Abbotsford could be swamped as it was last year because there is an elevated flood risk along the Fraser River due to high snowpacks.
Photograph by: File Photo , TIMES
B.C.s River Forecast Centre warned Tuesday there is "an elevated flood risk present through the entire length of the mainstem" of the Fraser River from the Robson Valley to the Fraser Valley.
The centre said its latest surveys showed: "very high snowpacks" measuring more than 135 per cent of normal in the Upper Fraser, Nechako and Skeena-Nass basins; and "high snow packs" more than 120 per cent of normal in the Lower Fraser, Columbia, Kootenay, Vancouver Island and Peace basins.
Snowpack conditions are 129 per cent of normal for the entire Fraser basin.
The centre also noted that peak flows in the South Coast and Vancouver Island regions are typically associated with major flood events during fall and winter rainfall storm events, and not the spring snowmelt.
