The Metro Vancouver Region's Environmental Ambient Monitoring Programs
Presentation Abstract
The Metro Vancouver region’s Integrated Liquid Waste and Resource Management Plan includes a regulatory requirement to conduct ambient environmental monitoring programs. These programs enable collection of baseline environmental quality data and assessment of environmental changes in the ambient that receives Region’s point and non-point source discharges. In addition, these programs provide information necessary to effectively manage liquid waste discharges and to assess the need for (and priority of) facility and infrastructure upgrades. As environmental steward of the regional water bodies, Metro Vancouver currently has in place ambient monitoring programs for the Lower Fraser River, Boundary Bay, Burrard Inlet and southern Strait of Georgia. These programs are designed based on 5-year monitoring cycles and include monitoring of water, sediment and biota, as well as assessment of spatial and temporal trends. Reporting is done for each monitoring component and a comprehensive report is completed at the end of each 5 year cycle.
Session Title
Session S-06C: Water Quality III
Conference Track
Water Quality
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2014 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
1-5-2014 1:30 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 3:00 PM
Location
Room 606
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Storm sewers--Environmental aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver Metropolitan Area; Combined sewers--Environmental aspects--British Columbia--Vancouver Metropolitan Area; Water--Pollution--Risk assessment--British Columbia--Vancouver Metropolitan Area; Water quality biological assessment--British Columbia--Vancouver Metropolitan Area
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Vancouver Metropolitan Area (B.C.)
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
The Metro Vancouver Region's Environmental Ambient Monitoring Programs
Room 606
The Metro Vancouver region’s Integrated Liquid Waste and Resource Management Plan includes a regulatory requirement to conduct ambient environmental monitoring programs. These programs enable collection of baseline environmental quality data and assessment of environmental changes in the ambient that receives Region’s point and non-point source discharges. In addition, these programs provide information necessary to effectively manage liquid waste discharges and to assess the need for (and priority of) facility and infrastructure upgrades. As environmental steward of the regional water bodies, Metro Vancouver currently has in place ambient monitoring programs for the Lower Fraser River, Boundary Bay, Burrard Inlet and southern Strait of Georgia. These programs are designed based on 5-year monitoring cycles and include monitoring of water, sediment and biota, as well as assessment of spatial and temporal trends. Reporting is done for each monitoring component and a comprehensive report is completed at the end of each 5 year cycle.
