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Shawnigan Lake Watershed Roundtable

State of the Basin
Bruce Fraser, Area Director

This Saturday March 31st, from 1-4pm at the Shawnigan Lake Community Centre, the Shawnigan Watershed Roundtable will be discussing the “state of the basin”.  Experts and members of the community will conduct an inventory of watershed concerns that will help to define the issues that must be faced over the next decade. 

When we look at a map of Shawnigan Watershed it appears much smaller than our mental image might have dictated.  We have industrial activity in the headwaters, industrial scale logging on the side slopes, dense lakeside residential development, an entire village on septic fields, two major subdivisions drawing domestic water from an increasingly polluted lake and continuing population growth.   Pressure on the land base and the lake is assured by subdivisions in the planning or construction stage that could further fragment the watershed or add to contamination reaching the waterways.

The Roundtable will also be forming the ongoing working group that will develop terms of reference, identify working targets for watershed improvement and ensure wide public and agency engagement.  Join us as witness or participant, you will be welcome. 

Watershed Roundtable Agenda
for March 31, 2012

State of the Basin

Forestry, Now and in the future
Industry in the headwaters
Commerce in the Villages
Settlement pattern: Subdivision: infill and new potential
Domestic Water Supply: Quality, quantity and demand
Sewage Treatment: now and in the future
Transportation and Transit coverage
Fire Services: increased demands
Recreation on land and lake: Parks, Road ends, trails, boating pressures
Climate Change Implications: evidence from the Cowichan watershed
Overall Land Use pattern
Overall Ecological Condition and Trajectory: Expert opinion and studies

Working Group

Working members: organizing team, Co-Chairs, Recording Secretary

Developing a Work plan

  • Balanced participation of residents, experts and agencies
  • Terms of reference
  • Meeting schedule
  • Communications with First Nations, public and agencies
  • Links to other basin groups
  • Information needs
  • Priorities for 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce Fraser
CVRD Regional Director-Shawnigan Lake

 

 

 

 

 

 


Director’s Meeting


7pm, April 2, 2012 at the Shawnigan Lake Community Centre

Agenda

  1. Introduction of Participants
  2. Guest Artist:  Robert Mari, Pianist and Conductor of the Cowichan Consort
  3. Questions and comments from the public
  4. Shawnigan Lake Water Quality with Dr. Asit Mazumder of UVic and Grant Price of the SRA
  5. Lidstech Application for increased water withdrawal
  6. Community Policing Service: what it does and what it costs
  7. Reports from Civic Groups; Inspire, SLBA, SRA, Parks Commission
  8. Progress on our Watershed Roundtable and Village Development
  9. The final CVRD Budget for 2012
  10. Director’s Summary
  11. Other items as required

 

Office in the Village
Inspire, the organized voice for Shawnigan’s  arts community, now has a gathering place in Suite 4 of the Purple Building on Dundas St. in the Village (above the Chippery).   As Area Director, I share a desk in their space for a part time village office.  The idea is to be more accessible to area residents and to encourage CVRD staff to meet us on location rather than in their Duncan office when conducting business in Area B.

Office hours for the Area Director will be from 11am to 1pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Other times, fitted around Inspire gatherings, can be arranged by appointment by calling Bruce Fraser at 250-510-7082, at home at 250-733-0771 or by email to bfraser@cvrd.bc.ca or by calling Kelly Musselwhite at 250-743-8112 or by her email  luvlife@shaw.ca