ABBOTSFORD — The mayor of flood-struck Abbotsford, B.C., says he is “disappointed and frustrated” with the federal government over “inaction” on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly inundated his city.

Ross Siemens says he has not been contacted by the federal government about this week’s flooding that has forced hundreds of households to evacuate, while inundating poultry barns and forcing livestock relocations.

Siemens told a news briefing that he’s pleading for flood mitigation to be addressed, and authorities across the border in Washington state also need to “wake up” and for the issue to part of an international treaty.

David Campbell with the B.C. River Forecast Centre says floodwaters that poured across the border from the flooded Nooksack River in Washington have started t

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