Erosion Protection for Northern Community Infrastructure

Designation Number:
W205
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

Drawing upon existing best practices, climate change modeling, and local knowledge this standard will provide requirements and recommendations relevant to preventing erosion and its impact on infrastructure and communities in Canada’s North. It will further detail requirements for managing surface water, installing and maintaining inland, riparian, and coastal erosion protection measures, erosion related monitoring, and community management of erosion prevention and infrastructure protection processes

Project need:

The North is experiencing warmer temperatures, snow melt, heavier precipitation events, increased run-off, degrading permafrost, and subsurface drainage. These occurrences, which are largely attributed to climate change, are leading to erosion and subsequent impacts to infrastructure and communities across Canada’s north. Sound avoidance, mitigation, and protection measures, tailored specifically to northern conditions and northern stakeholders, are needed but currently do not exist.

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