Property owners along the Fraser River want the city to chip in to keep the bank from siding any further into the water.
A group representing up to 160 homes on Lansdowne Road between Wiens and Pierreory Roads will make their case to city council Monday night.
Led by Tom Wilkinson, the group is asking that the city sign on to a riverbank stabilization project so that it can take advantage of potential provincial funding sources.
"We suffered some major riverbank erosion during the freshet of 2012," Wilkinson said in a letter to council. "The erosion is ongoing and is now encroaching on the property boundaries."
The group is also presenting a report they commissioned in 2013 from DWB Consulting Services.
"Although erosion rates have been variable, losses are expected to continue resulting in property loss and further damage to existing infrastructure," the July 2013 report said of failure to take any action. The consultants estimated the cost of the work - from survey to revegetation - at around $1.6 million.
The city recently made an application for a joint federal-provincial grant for a $1.4 million erosion mitigation project along the Fraser River Bench Lands near lower College Heights, where runoff from the entire 560-hectare College Heights watershed draining to the river has caused public safety concerns.
