it’s apparently the second biggest pumping station in North America
and if it fails
surrounded as it is with 150 volunteers packing sandbags as fast as they can
Sumas Lake will reappear after 97 years
50% of the eggs and dairy for BC will be gone, possibly never to return
and collectively we will have lost one of the most critical pieces of farmland in BC history
you need a million calories a year and 5000 litres of water
LATER
anyway the mayor and chief of police in Abby have reported that the pumping station is holding but it was a near thing