Virden Wallace-Woodworth Climate Adaptation Plan
The Town of Virden and the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth propose a scoping analysis for distributed water retention system based on multi-functional storage (MFS) in the Virden and Wallace-Woodworth area. The purpose of the project is to develop the economic case for large scale investment in natural infrastructure on the agricultural landscape as a key adaptation to the elevated risk of both flood and drought, helping provincial and municipal governments attract multifunctional de-risking adaptation investments.
The study will identify the size, number and location of potential MFS sites in the Virden and Wallace-Woodworth areas and build the investment case based on implementation costs, and various project benefits including climate risk (flood/drought) reduction, irrigation potential, water quality and habitat benefits.
Future potential follow-up to this plan will be to develop a feasibility study for specific identified locations in the Virden and Wallace-Woodworth areas: Hydrodynamic and simulation modelling of the Scallion, Bosshill and Gopher watersheds (Virden) to develop a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of retention storage with climate change sensitivity. This future Manitoba case study will apply the Prairie Climate Atlas data to demonstrate full climate risk analytics consistent with emerging best practices for climate resilient infrastructure investment planning. The case study analyses will be used to refine basin-scale investment case including the detailed benefit analysis from the Virden study.
This study will be a follow-up to the recommendations of the Manitoba Climate and Green Plan and the Roseau River Study by building the investment case for multi-functional storage (MFS) in the Assiniboine River Basin using leading-edge geospatial and hydrological analysis and best-in-class climate risk analytics for investment planning.
The study will identify the size, number and location of potential MFS sites in the Virden and Wallace-Woodworth areas and build the investment case based on implementation costs, and various project benefits including climate risk (flood/drought) reduction, irrigation potential, water quality and habitat benefits.
Future potential follow-up to this plan will be to develop a feasibility study for specific identified locations in the Virden and Wallace-Woodworth areas: Hydrodynamic and simulation modelling of the Scallion, Bosshill and Gopher watersheds (Virden) to develop a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of retention storage with climate change sensitivity. This future Manitoba case study will apply the Prairie Climate Atlas data to demonstrate full climate risk analytics consistent with emerging best practices for climate resilient infrastructure investment planning. The case study analyses will be used to refine basin-scale investment case including the detailed benefit analysis from the Virden study.
This study will be a follow-up to the recommendations of the Manitoba Climate and Green Plan and the Roseau River Study by building the investment case for multi-functional storage (MFS) in the Assiniboine River Basin using leading-edge geospatial and hydrological analysis and best-in-class climate risk analytics for investment planning.