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Here is how local news station CTV News Vancouver has been reporting the situation in Abbotsford after the mayor issued an evacuation warning, citing the risk of Barrowtown Pump Station failing. They wrote:
First responders believe there are many people who remain in the evacuated area, including an unconfirmed number who require water rescue due to previous flooding from the intense storm that bombarded the province on Sunday and Monday.
The city described the Barrowtown Pump Station as a “critical piece of infrastructure” preventing Sumas Lake from reforming, and said the failure of even one of its four pumps would result in quickly rising water levels in the Sumas Prairie, which has been under an evacuation order since Tuesday morning.
