SEHAB Member: Paul Cipywnyk
Area: North Side Fraser River – Burnaby to Mission
Community Advisor: Maurice Coulter-Boisvert
Date: November 2015
Key Issues:
What top three points can you distill from community input to take to DFO RHQ?
1. Municipalities working on stream-affecting projects outside the fish window
2. Coho pre-spawn mortality continues to be a concern. The only way to improve this is filtering street runoff, yet cities are way behind on implementing ISMPs
3. Very slow implementation of watershed-friendly features such as swales, biofiltration ponds, roadside alternatives, etc. This means water quality continues to suffer, and massive runoff causes erosion.
Stories:
A few examples of successes, failures, challenges.
Lots of education with all groups, work with schools, good media coverage
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Submissions, Comments from Groups:
Hi Paul The Fraser River Coalition , Judy Willams Co- chair has asked
me to pass on this immediate concern question to you ! Question :
To meet global climate change estimates , all the protective marine and river dikes will have to be raised , starting as soon as 2016 ! Federal and Provincial funding to do the work on these multi year diking projects all over the Province of B. C. must be found ! Raising the protective dikes will possible harm Wild Juvenile Salmon feeding and generally migration routes ! This work has to be done and what Federal and Provincial plans will be in place to protect migrating salmon , during these many dike raising projects all over the Province of B. C. ? Terry Slack Director Fraser River Coalition