If you frequent the parking lot near No. 3 Road and Dyke Road, you will have to find an alternate parking spot for the upcoming year.
According to the City of Richmond, the parking lot will be closed to facilitate dike raising work on between No. 3 Road and 400-metres west of No. 4 Road as of Monday, Aug. 16.
According to the City of Richmond, the closure will be in effect for the entire project, which is approximately one year.
The work being done to raise the dike is in regards to the city’s Flood Protection Management Strategy and Dike Master Plans to help improve the city while addressing the rising sea level due to climate change.
The City of Richmond has been upgrading its dike system, planning for a one-metre sea-level rise by the end of the century.
A city staff report on the accelerated diking plan notes that the city regularly reviews and updates its plans and strategies “to accommodate changes to sea level projections.”
The city said it recognizes that climate change and sea level rise “is an evolving science and anticipate that updates to the (strategy) will be required every few years to account for new information as it becomes available.”
-with file from Kirsten Clarke