Have Your Say: Water Engagement Initiative

The 12th meeting of the Main Table participants for the Water Engagement Initiative was held via videoconference on July 8th, 2020.

Links to some important documents can be found below. All documents associated with Meeting #12 can be found in the document library.

WEI Meeting #12 - Summary

WEI Meeting #12 - Draft Agenda

WEI Meeting #12 - Slideshow Presentation

Nechako River Turbidity - June/July 2020

The 11th meeting of the Main Table participants for the Water Engagement Initiative was held via videoconference on June 10th, 2020.

Links to some important documents can be found below.

WEI Meeting #11 - Summary

WEI Meeting #11 - Draft Agenda

WEI Meeting #11 - Slideshow Presentation

The 10th meeting of the Main Table participants for the Water Engagement Initiative was held via teleconference. Links to some important documents can be found below.

WEI Meeting #10 - Slideshow Presentation

WEI Meeting #10 - Summary

Andre Zimmerman, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants - Presentation

All documents associated with Meeting #8 can be found in the WEI Document Library.

The 9th meeting of the Main Table participants for the Water Engagement Initiative was held via teleconference. Links to some important documents can be found below.

WEI Meeting 9 - Summary

WEI Meeting 9 - Slideshow Presentation

Nechako White Sturgeon Fact Sheet

All documents associated with Meeting #8 can be found in the WEI Document Library.

The 8th meeting of the Main Table participants for the Water Engagement Initiative was held via teleconference. Links to some important documents can be found below.

WEI Meeting 8 - Slideshow Presentation

WEI Meeting 8 - Meeting Summary

All documents associated with Meeting #8 can be found in the WEI Document Library.

The WEI participants met in Vanderhoof on February 12th for their seventh meeting. Key documents from the meeting include:

WEI Slideshow Presentation

Map - Cheslatta Lake Watershed

Map - Stuart River Watershed

Map - Nechako River Watershed

Map - Nautley River Watershed

Map - Nechako Reservoir Watershed

The WEI participants met in Prince George on November 20th for their sixth meeting. Key documents from the meeting include:

WEI Slideshow Presentation

WEI Communication Working Group - October Meeting Summary

Bauner Presentation of Salmon & Sturgeon Results

WEI Meeting #6 Summary

Presentation on Research from UVIC/ETC/UBC/INRS

Presentation on Research: Climate Change and Reservoir Management

On September 27th, at UNBC in Prince George, Drs Stephen Dery, Phil Owens, Ellen Peticrew and Margot Parkes presented a talk on the topic of Integrated Watershed research in the Nechako.

If you were unable to attend the presentation or would like to listen again, the presentation is now available online through UNBC. Click here to watch the presentation.

Below is an abstract explaining their research:

The Nechako Watershed encompasses nearly 50,000 square kilometers from the Coast Mountains to the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, forming the second largest sub-watershed of the Fraser River Basin. The Nechako (a derivation of a Dakelh word meaning “big river”) remains a vital waterway for anadromous fish including three species of salmon and non-anadromous fish such as bull trout, rainbow trout, and the endangered Nechako white sturgeon. Despite its ecological, societal and cultural importance, the nature of this complex system remains elusive. Cumulative stressors including climate change, landcover disturbances (e.g. wildfires, the mountain pine beetle outbreak and forest harvesting), land use changes (e.g. the expansion of the Vanderhoof agricultural belt), and damming of the Nechako River main stem have led to drastic changes to the water and landscapes of the Nechako. Over the past five years, a team of four UNBC researchers with complementary expertise has thus undertaken a study to integrate knowledge on climate change and water security, sediment sources and fluxes, and the health and well-being of the Nechako. This colloquium delivered by the four members of the Integrated Watershed Research Group will report on their findings through the first years of research in the Nechako and lessons learned in this collaborative effort involving many stakeholders across the Nechako

The WEI participants met in Vanderhoof on Oct 8th for their fifth meeting. Key documents from the meeting include:

• WEI Meeting #5 Slideshow Presentation
• WEI Structured Decision Making Process
• Hydrographs 101
• Rio Tinto Water Management - Hydrograph & Objective
• WEI Meeting #5 - Summary

The fourth WEI main table meeting took place September 11, at CNC in Burns Lake. The meeting summary, presentation and press release are available below, just click on the link!

WEI Meeting #4 - Meeting Summary

WEI Meeting #4 - Presentation

WEI Meeting #4 - List of Information Needs