Lower Mainland Water Use Planning

Water use planning aims to find a sustainable balance between competing uses of water through a consultative planning process designed to consider environmental, social and economic values.

Find more information below on water use planning projects for BC Hydro's hydroelectric facilities located in the Lower Mainland.

Alouette

• Project completed September 1996 before the provincial Water Use Planning Guidelines were drafted.
• Executive summary [PDF, 12 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.

Bridge River

• Project initiated June 1999 and completed December 2001.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in December 2003.
• Executive summary [PDF, 27 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.

Cheakamus

• Consultative Committee concluded discussions April 2002.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in October 2003.
• Water Use Plan [PDF, 867 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in February 2006.
• Executive summary [PDF, 240 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
• Monitoring Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 1.4 Mb] (Cheakamus River Juvenile Salmonid Outmigrant Enumeration Monitoring) accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in March 2007.

Coquitlam-Buntzen

• Project initiated September 1999 and completed March 2003.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in August 2003.
• Water Use Plan [PDF, 2.4 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in April 2005.
• Executive summary [PDF, 74 Kb] and addendum [PDF, 264 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
• Monitoring Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 1.3 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in February 2007.
• Physical Works Terms of Reference [PDF, 412 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in February 2007.
• 2006 Annual Report [PDF, 113 Kb] submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in May 2006.
• 2007 Annual Report [PDF, 150 Kb] submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in April 2007
• Study reports:
  • January 2006 – COQMON #5 [PDF, 400 Kb] – Periphyton and Benthic Invertebrate Monitoring for Water Use Planning in the Coquitlam River, 2004
  • February 2006 – COQMON #8 [PDF, 6.1 Mb] – Lower Coquitlam River Substrate Quality Assessment
  • March 2006 – COQMON #2 [PDF, 290 Kb] – Coquitlam Dam Flow Release Interim Ramping Rate Monitoring
  • November 2006 – COQMON#7 [PDF, 408 Kb] – Lower CQD Fish Productivity Index 2006
  • December 2006 – COQMON#5 [PDF, 2.0 Mb] – Periphyton and Benthos Invertebrate Monitoring report 2006
  • March 2007 – COQMON#6 [PDF, 11.0 Mb] – Temperature Monitoring Lower Coquitlam River Project – Year 1 Report

Clowhom

• Project initiated May 2002 and completed May 2003.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in December 2003.
• Water Use Plan [PDF, 1.8 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in April 2005.
• Executive summary [PDF, 219 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
• Monitoring Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 2.1 Mb] accepted by the comptroller of Water Rights in October 2005.
• 2006 Annual Report [PDF, 76 Kb] submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in May 2006.

Stave River

• Project completed November 1999.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in November 1999.
• Water Use Plan [PDF, 2.2 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in May 2004.
• Executive summary [PDF, 39 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report and an article [PDF, 18 Kb] written by Charlotte Bemister provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
• Monitoring Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 503 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in June 2005.
• 2006 Annual Report [PDF, 4.1 Mb] submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in July 2006.
• Monitoring Programs Annual Report: 2007 [PDF, 111 Kb]
• Study reports:
  • March 2006 – SFLMON #3 [PDF, 2.5 Mb] – Abundance and Biomass of Fish in Stave Reservoir during Fall 2005
  • April 2006 – SFLMON #1 & 2 [PDF, 639 Kb] – Report on the 2005 Stave Reservoir Pelagic Monitor and Littoral Productivity Assessment
  • July 2006 – SFLMON #9 [PDF, 922 Kb] – Turbidity Levels in Hayward Lake Reservoir, Year 1
  • February 2007 – SFLMON #3 [PDF, 1.4 Mb] – Abundance and Biomass of Fish in Stave Reservoir
  • March 2007 – SFLMON #5 [PDF, 818 Kb] – Stave River Risk of Adult Stranding Monitor

Wahleach

• Project initiated September 2000 and completed October 2002.
• Consultative Committee Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in December 2003.
• Water Use Plan [PDF, 2.2 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in January 2005.
• Executive summary [PDF, 23 Kb] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
• Monitoring Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 777 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in September 2005.
• Physical Works Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 773 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in October 2005.
• 2006 Annual Report [PDF, 390 Kb] submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in April 2006.
• Fertilization Program Terms of Reference [PDF, 872 Kb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in June 2006.
• Physical Works Terms of Reference Lower Wahleach Creek Channel Enhancement Project [PDF, 1.4 Mb] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights in August 2006.
• Study reports:
  • April 2006 – WAHMON #3 [PDF, 2.5 Mb] – Herrling Island Chum Spawning Success Monitor
  • December 2006 – Lower Jones Creek Channel Stability Assessment [PDF, 2.0 Mb]
  • January 2007 – WAHMON #1 [PDF, 1.1 Mb] – Lower Jones Creek Fish Productivity Indices

Last Modified: July 24, 2007