Municipalities

ICLR Tools for Local Governments

Local governments are confronting one of the most important issues of our time – the alarming recent increase in damage to Canadian homes, buildings and infrastructure from extreme weather. Communities large and small across the country are now taking action to reduce the risk of basement flooding, wind, hail and wildfire damage to property.

ICLR is a leader in working with local governments on strategies to involve property owners in the management of natural hazards and has developed a range of tools that municipalities can use to assist their residents and businesses in reducing the risk that they experience property damage and disruption.

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PIEVC Program

The Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) process provides a road-map to guide the systematic assessment of the resilience of infrastructure to the effects of extreme weather, climate variability and climate change.

Cities Adapt

Local governments are taking action to reduce the risk to Canadians from extreme weather. ICLR’s Cities adapt: Celebrating local leadership is a series of books extolling local governments adapting to climate change and building more resilient communities. The books include case studies describing local actions in Canada that are consistent with best practices for climate resilience as identified by the Institute.

IDFCC

IDF_CC is a web-based intensity-duration-frequency tool to update and adapt local extreme rainfall statistics to climate change. The IDF_CC tool is pre-loaded with 898 Environment and Climate Change Canada rain stations. Users can select any rain station with 10 or more years of data and develop IDF curves based on historical data and curves adjusted to reflect climate change.

Quake Smart Program

ICLR’s Earthquake Risk tool has been developed with the CoreLogic Canada Earthquake Model. The intent of this risk tool is to provide insights into the relative earthquake risk across Canada. This risk considers both the seismic hazard and population at risk in each region. Simply enter your postal code and get your relative risk of an earthquake in any region in Canada.

Basement Flood Protection Lab

A collaboration between ICLR and the University of Guelph’s School of Engineering, the Basement Flood Protection Lab seeks to better understand technologies that are applied to control urban flood risk in Canada. This collaboration has specifically emphasized understanding of lot-level (household level) methods of managing flood risk. The primary intent is to better understand the reliability and efficacy of these measures.

Backwater Valve Installation

This microsite contains a protocol that will help plumbers/installers, plumbing inspectors and others to review the necessary steps involved in the installation of a backwater valve. This site provides information relevant to homes serviced by underground, public sewer systems, typically located in urban areas.

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This microsite contains a protocol that will help plumbers/installers, plumbing inspectors and others to review the necessary steps involved in the installation of a backwater valve. This site provides information relevant to homes serviced by underground, public sewer systems, typically located in urban areas.

Flood Map Viewer

Flood hazard and flood risk maps provided on this website are generated using the CaMa-Flood model. These maps are intended for use at national, provincial, or regional scales and can serve as a guide for identifying areas that require further investigation. Flood Hazard maps for current and future (climate change-affected) conditions, as well as Flood Risk maps, are available at a 1 km resolution.

The Canadian Centre for Recovery and Resilience

The Canadian Centre for Recovery and Resilience is a trusted resource dedicated to disaster recovery. We transform knowledge into actionable steps by serving as a networking hub for recovery actors, sharing success stories and practices, and building capacity for recovery and resilience. By bringing people from various sectors together, we aim to develop practical solutions to recovery challenges.