Vancouver Island / Sunshine Coast Regional Meeting

Opening Remarks and An Update from the BCGWA - Dave Mercer

A look back at the accomplishments of the BCGWA in the past, and a look forward to what we are currently working on for our members.

Regional District of Nanaimo’s Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Program - Lauren Fegan

Lauren is the Monitoring Network Coordinator for the Regional District of Nanaimo’s Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Program. She will be speaking about her work with environmental stewards to complete surface water quality monitoring, management of the RDN’s groundwater level monitoring network, and education programs for well owners on water testing.

Development of a Hydrostratigraphic Model for Quadra Island - Jerome Lesemann

Jerome Lesemann is Chair of the Earth Science Department at Vancouver Island University. He holds an MSc from the University of Alberta and a PhD from Simon Fraser University. At VIU, Jerome teaches Quaternary Geology and Hydrogeology courses (amongst others) with a strong focus on water and resource sustainability.  Jerome will be introducing a project that he and his hydrogeology students have just begun with a community-based group on Quadra Island who is taking an active interest in managing their groundwater resources for long-term sustinability. As Is the case with many areas, there are a couple of aquifers that are mapped but not much else in terms of a framework for study. As a result, Jerome’s students will be working on developing a hydrostratigraphic model for the southern portion of Quadra Island. Their work flow includes assessing and standardizing a few hundred water well logs, some site visits to sample the aquifer and aquitard sediments, some lab-based estimates of hydraulic conductivity, modelling the subsurface in LeapFrog, and assessing the vulnerability of the aquifers.

An Update from the Ministries - Nicole Fulcher

Open Discussion / Closing Remarks