B.C. (British
Columbia) TAP WATER ALLIANCE
www.bctwa.org
(email) [email protected]
During its active life since
1997, the BC Tap Water Alliance has accumulated a large
variety of information available on this site. Below
(left) is a guide to weaving through this information, and
on the opposite side are highlights on recent issues.
For
reports, files, history and features on
individual community watershed issues:
* Rossland City;
* Greater Vancouver;
* the Sunshine Coast;
* Vancouver Island
* Greater Victoria;
* Elk Creek (Chilliwack);
* Arrow Creek (Creston & Erickson);
* Portland City (Bull Run).
Two
Newsletters: No.1, Natural
Source
Protection:
High Time for a Change (April
2004);
and No.2, "Community" Forestry in
Your Drinking Water (September
2005)
A new reporting
format introduced on May 20, 2008. As an original
two issue series journal from 1995 - 1996 by Friends
of the Watersheds about the recent logging history,
and re-protection, of the Greater Vancouver
watersheds, it has been resurrected to fill an
important niche for the provincial level. The first
report is a case history study of the Sunshine Coast
community forest.
For information about
BC's Land Act
Watershed Reserves. A key interpretive feature
of this new site, and on the politics behind the
"invasion" of BC's drinking watersheds, is an
upcoming lengthy report, due sometime in the summer
of 2005.
Small
assembly of information: government statistics,
Public Accounts Committee, old report (1953) on
groundwater, early info on the Drinking Water
Protection Plan.
8-Page Letter to Forests &
Range Minister Pat Bell, concerning the
Creston Valley Forest Corporation and its license
to log in four community watersheds, Arrow,
Sullivan, Camp Run and Lister, three of which are
Watershed Reserves. Backgrounder to
the letter, which is a copy of a
section from Chapter 8 of From Wisdom to
Tyranny)
September 10,
2008 (pdf file - 86
kilobytes)
A transcript of the Metro Vancouver Water Committee
meeting regarding a dicussion about access into the
Greater Vancouver Watersheds
July 9,
2008
(pdf file - 5 Megabytes) The Topping Creek Crisis:
Community
Resistance Against Resort Residential and Golf
Course Development Proposals in Rossland City's
Community Watershed Reserve
May 20, 2008
(pdf - 19,904 kb) The Community
Forest Trojan Horse - The Sunshine Coast
Community Forest Proposal and Probationary License
in Two Watershed Reserves - A Case History
(2003-2008). Text only
(only two images)
(pdf - 1,038 kb) Summary
Information
May 14, 2008
(pdf-175 kb)
Response presentation to the Metro Vancouver Water
Committee regarding February 13, 2008
Metro Vancouver staff report made in response to
B.C. Tap Water Alliance November 14, 2007
presentation to the Water Committee
on Metro Vancouver's Drinking Water Management Plan.
April 3,
2008
(pdf - 141 kb)
Response Submission to the Private Managed
Forest Lands Council Decisions regarding a May 21,
2007 complaint by BC Tap Water Alliance against
TimberWest for violating the provincial private
forest lands Regulation,
clearcutting a riparian corridor on Beech Creek, a
tributary of the Comox Lake drinking watershed,
Comox, Vancouver Island. April 4, 2008
(pdf - 1,157 kb)
Comox Valley Echo newspaper article, Timber Company's
Fine Axed
Sunshine Coast
Regional District's Board of Health Hearing. A
transcript of Ministry of Forests Sunshine Coast
District Manager Greg Hemphill's witness testimony
from August 8, 2007.
July 23, 2007 (pdf - 178 kb)
Presentation to the Sunshine Coast Regional
District's Board of Health Hearing regarding a
complaint against Western Forest Products and the
Ministry of Forests about logging in the Chapman
Creek Watershed Reserve.
May 14, 2007
(pdf - 3,767 kb)
Presentation in Courtney, B.C.
to the Comox Valley
Water Watch Coalition
"NO TIMBER SALES"
(pdf - 1,170 kb)
FROM WISDOM TO TYRANNY
Article in the March/April 2007 edition of the
Watershed Sentinel (Vol.17, No.2)
March 8, 2007
Copy of the article by Will Koop in the Georgia
Straight newspaper about the mountain pine beetle
and future flooding.
February 23, 2007
Leaflet distributed to delegates attending the
annual conference of the BC Association of Forest
Professionals at Harrison Hot Springs, urging BC's
forester members to end commercial logging in
drinking watersheds.
June 12, 2006 BOOK LAUNCH
FROM WISDOM TO TYRANNY:
A HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S DRINKING
WATERSHED RESERVES (information on how to get a copy of the
self-published book) Press
Release, June 23, 2006
June 2, 2005:
Presentation of information to delegates
attending the international conference on Landslide
Risk Assessment held at the University of British
Columbia
(MS Word)
