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Managing Water Quality in the Columbia Basin: “the Lower Columbia River” Canadian Columbia River Forum Cranbrook, BC May 30, 2007.

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1 Managing Water Quality in the Columbia Basin: “the Lower Columbia River” Canadian Columbia River Forum Cranbrook, BC May 30, 2007

2 Columbia River Basin

3 B.C. Environmental Management Act –Regulations: Municipal Sewage, Contaminated Sites, Waste Discharge, Hazardous Waste, etc… B.C. Water Protection Act Federal Fisheries Act B.C. Environmental Assessment Act Others… Regulatory Framework

4 Federal-Provincial Water Quality Monitoring Program Site specific water quality objectives Environmental Monitoring

5 Partnerships and shared stewardship Columbia River Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program (CRIEMP) www.criemp.org Shared Stewardship

6 Columbia River Basin: “the Lower Columbia River”

7 Lower Columbia River: Diverse Water Uses

8 Water Quality Flow regulation Industrial operations Municipal wastewater NPS Climate change Emerging issues

9 Water Quality: Flow Regulation

10 Recent improvements: TGP reduction – verified by CRIEMP monitoring Water Use Planning (BC Hydro) –Required under Water Act

11 Water Quality: Zellstoff Celgar

12 Modernization project in early 90’s – significant decrease dioxins, furans and other chlorinated substances Environmental Effects Monitoring – Required under federal Fisheries Act

13 Water Quality: Teck Cominco Metals

14 Upgrades: →phosphate plant closed →slag discharge eliminated →improvements to Stoney Creek →KIVCET smelter Human health and ecological risk assessment Water Quality: Teck Cominco

15 Water Quality: Municipal Wastewater

16 City of Castlegar –CRIEMP partnership Regional District of Kootenay Boundary –Liquid Waste Management Planning

17 Transboundary Water Quality Lake Roosevelt Forum Lake Roosevelt Water Quality Council Transboundary Gas Group Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Recovery Initiative

18 Columbia River: a valuable resource Protecting water quality: –Regulatory tools –Environmental monitoring –Shared stewardship Significant improvements in water quality Emerging issues Summary

19 Jolene Raggett Environmental Assessment Biologist (250) 354-6389 Jolene.Raggett@gov.bc.ca

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