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SSIWPA Presentation: Salt Spring Groundwater Monitoring December 10

Please be invited to attend the public presentation by William Shulba, Islands Trust Senior Freshwater Specialist:

“Salt Spring Island Targeted Groundwater Well Monitoring Pilot”

 

Tuesday December 10, 2019

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Salt Spring Island Library Program Room – Open to all.

129 McPhillips Ave.

 

We wish to acknowledge that we are grateful for:

Partial funding for this project by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia;

Salt Spring Island wellowners and lake station stewards for their generosity in offering to host monitoring stations;

SSIWPA and its core member agencies the Capital Regional District, Islands Trust and the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development for contributing funding and in kind resources.

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SSI Groundwater Monitoring Pilot Project Update

As recommended by Golder Associates in their recent public presentation on Salt Spring Island (November 23, 2018) “Groundwater Budget Analysis for Aquifers on Salt Spring Island, BC”: analyses, conclusions, decision-making and planning for freshwater sustainability on Salt Spring Island could really benefit from groundwater level monitoring and study of groundwater-surface interactions which have previously been sparse and under-studied.

During the two-year project by Golder Associates for both the provincial Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (ENV) and the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNR), a project was launched through a coordinated approach at SSIWPA and is co-lead by Islands Trust and FLNR: The SSI Groundwater Wells Monitoring Pilot Project.

Click the link at the project title above to see the updated information about this important pilot to collect and analyze 12 months of data and potential to continue as a community groundwater monitoring network to complement the Provincial Groundwater Observation Wells monitoring network.

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October Watershed News Highlights

Watershed News in British Columbia: October Highlights

Water Monitoring in British Columbia: Scanning the Data Landscape

Annotation: A public report. Essential to effective monitoring are the words: collaboration and data standardization. Learn what is happening beyond Salt Spring Island – how can these projects and monitoring collaborations about freshwater in B.C. improve what we do to understand and better protect water close to home?

Habitat conservation critical to saving half of Canada’s song bird species from extinction

Annotation: According to a study released last week by the Boreal Songbird Initiative, vast sections of boreal forest are impacted so thoroughly in climate models that solutions-focussed researchers are lobbying for protection of songbird species at risk with rigorous and large-scale habitat protection – refugia areas capable of this type of protection for many bird species exist in several provinces, with large areas identified in B.C., Ontario and Quebec. The climate models don’t include losses from human disturbance and energy development.

Advancing Freshwater Protection: Tools and Opportunities in British Columbia’s Water Sustainability Act,  by Oliver Brandes and Rosie Simms.

Annotation: POLIS Water Sustainability Project has released a brief, dated September 2018, to assist those who are seeking to address local water challenges. It identifies seven main tools for communities to investigate and apply, under the Water Sustainability Act.bA summary table of the seven tools, and what watershed problems they might help solve, is found on page 4 of this brief. It intends to be “part of a bundle of practical resources that the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and associated partners and developed to build community capacity and understanding…”