The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) is an aquatic biomonitoring program for assessing the health of fresh water ecosystems in Canada. Benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at a site location and their counts are used as an indicator of the...

The Bulkley-Morice Water Sustainability Initiative launched in 2021 to provide riparian restoration, watershed education and outreach in the Upper Bulkley and Morice area. Low-tech restoration projects using natural materials undertaken on Maxan Creek and...

In April of 2020, the Society for Ecosystem Restoration Northern British Columbia (SERNbc) undertook an initiative to plan and conduct fish passage restoration planning activities in the Bulkley River and Morice River watershed groups which are sub-basins...

This document contains diagrams for fish fence models, such as guide frames, walkway panels, fry screen structures, and more.

British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act requires that certain large-scale project proposals undergo an environmental assessment and obtain an environmental assessment certificate before they can proceed. The current legislation came into effect in...

This stream inventory aims to employ a biophysical method of aquatic systems inventory to the fourteen sockeyes streams, experiment with methodology based on low-level Arial inventory, and provide Fisheries Service personnel with a better data base.

1983 Bathymetric Survey of Seymour Lake by the BC Ministry of Environment.

This report, commissioned by the Babine Watershed Monitoring Trust, assists with monitoring activities in the Babine Watershed related to recreation. The report uses Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) mapping to look at the landscape and determine what...

The watershed boundary in use by the Babine River Foundation. The boundary includes the Babine River and Tsezakwa Creek sub-watershed. It was created in 2010 by Eclipse Geomatics.

Commencing in 1998, Babine River coho fry were strategically enhanced by conducting fry and smolt releases. A survival comparison of the fry versus smolt releases was intended to determine if fry releases into the Babine system could be used to increase the...

Water quality data were obtained in May 1983, May 1984, and July 1984 in Babine Lake to determine if there was any impact from the Bell Copper Mine discharges. Physical and chemical water quality data were collected associated with taxonomic and metal...

The Water Resources Atlas is an iMapBC application with enhanced query functionality to enable the display of detailed water related data, including watersheds, water quantity and quality monitoring sites, aquifers, water wells and flood protection works.

Water quantity (streams and wells) and water quality (surface and ground) monitoring stations maintained by the Environmental Monitoring System, Northern Health Authority, BC Oil and Gas Commission, Water Survey of Canada, BC Environmental Assessment...

The Surface Water Monitoring Sites web application allows users to browse a map interface to find freshwater monitoring locations throughout BC. Clicking on a station provides the name and description of the water quality monitoring station as well as...

Province-wide SDE spatial layer displaying water licence points of diversion joined with licence information. This layer contains a record for each water licence on each Point of Diversion that exists in the province (each Point of Diversion can have...

An interactive map allowing users to explore lake water quality within the province of British Columbia. The map portal may be used to explore water quality data sampled in the BC Lake Monitoring Program, download EMS data, or view general information...

The Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) test results as .csv files available for download. Results include physical, chemical and biological analyses of samples taken from water, air, solid waste discharges and ambient monitoring sites throughout the...

The Environmental Monitoring System (EMS), is the Ministry of Environment corporate electronic repository for the capture and extraction of results for chemical, physical and biological analysis performed on air, water, biological, solid waste discharge,...

Searchable database of community watersheds in BC. Watersheds can be selected based on various parameters, and data can be viewed in browser or downloaded as a .csv file.

Boundaries (polygons) of areas designated as community watershed by government - that are all or part of the drainage area that is upslope of the lowest point from which water is diverted for human consumption by a licensed waterworks, if satisfied that, to...