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Thursday, October 18, 2012 VOL. 30 Number 41
Fall fair focus of Concert an honour, Rock Creek meeting a celebration See Page 3 See Page 9
Workshop focuses on watershed PAT KELLY Boundary Creek Times Reporter
Rethinking Our Waterways, a one-day public workshop focusing on a management plan for the watershed, was held at the Rock Creek Fairgrounds last Friday. Graham Watt, project co-ordinator of the Kettle River Management Plan (KRMP) is under contract with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) to oversee the production of the plan. There are two regional district Karaoke starts 8:30 pm committees inLast Saturday of every month volved. Area E Rural Director Bill Baird is chair of the Kettle River Steering Committee and Area BARRY POPPENHEIM C Rural Director Grace McGregor is chair of the Kettle River Study Stakeholder Committee, which includes A Trusted Name the participation A HouseSold Word of some 30 inCell (250) 449-8276 terested citizens barrysells@shaw.ca who will assist http://m.clikbrix.com/t/2031 in the planning. The planning department of the regional district and other government offices are also assisting the project. “Today gives 0 24543 16681 8 us a broader per-
spective on what people’s concerns are, how active they want to be, what they see as the issues, what they see as the answers to the issues,” said McGregor. A draft State of the Watershed Report was released last June, bringing together the known technical data on the watershed. It is available online at kettleriver.ca Phase 2 of the watershed management planning process will see the rest of this year spent gathering an understanding of watershed issues, values and visions through public meetings and surveys. The first half of 2013 will be spent developing goals, objectives and priorities, while the latter half of the year will see recommendations developed. A draft Watershed Management Plan is due to be published during the first three months of Residents from throughout the watershed came together in Rock Creek last Friday to help develop the Kettle River Watershed Management Plan. 2014, followed by three Basin Water Board (online at obwb.ca). is voted on. He anticipates the draft bemonths of implementation planning. His focus was on helping identify who ing ready for comment in the spring, with Last Friday’s workshop was entitled Rethinking Our Water Ways, taken from was missing from the room, but should be it going before the House in the fall of 2013. a 2011 document of the same name pub- involved in the plan. After lunch Watt led some exercises to Those who didn’t attend still have an lished by the Fraser Basin Council (FBC). opportunity to give the steering and stakeFBC’s Senior Program Manager Steve identify and brainstorm specific issues. Boundary-Similkameen MLA John holder committees the benefit of local inLitke shared the experiences and insights of the 15-year-old non-profit group. More Slater was in attendance and, when asked formation and local ideas about how to information is available from fraserbasin. about the current status of the Modern- move forward. A survey was delivered to izing the Water Act initiative, said that every mailbox in the watershed earlier this bc.ca or rethinkingwater.ca Another speaker/facilitator at the Fri- legislation is being drafted but he vowed month. The survey, with a deadline of Nov. 16, day workshop was Nelson Jatel, water he intends to make sure it will be released stewardship director with the Okanagan to all stakeholders for comment before it is also available online at kettleriver.ca.
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