URGENT MESSAGE: Save Tetrahedron Park!
CLICK HERE FOR A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE ISSUES
BC Parks Open House Wednesday May 2nd, 5-7pm at Seaside Center, seeks input on either revoking the Tetrahedron Provincial Park’s Class A status or removing Chapman and Edwards Lake from the Park in order to build the Chapman Water Expansion Project.
The Chapman Water Expansion Project would degrade our most important potable water source. Tetrahedron Park was explicitly created to protect this source for the benefit all Sunshine Coast communities.
Please help us send a powerful message to BC Parks and the Provincial Government that neither option they have presented is acceptable. The timing of this open house is deliberately short notice, don’t let them stop you from responding! See you at the Seaside Center in Sechelt on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd
5 - 7 pm at the SEASIDE CENTRE
5790 Teredo Street, Sechelt
READ ALL ABOUT IT IN OUR LATEST BRIEFING
Although SCRD Directors representing approximately 1/3 of Chapman system users continue to push the unsustainable Chapman Water Expansion Project (CWEP) forward, SCRD Directors representing approximately 2/3 of Chapman supply users strongly support wiser, more sustainable options for long-term solutions.
If the SCRD goes ahead with the CWEP, it would be wasting $5 million on a temporary measure! This money would be much better spent on long-term conservation measures, infrastructure upgrades and aquifer development.
The SCCA is totally opposed to removing the Park’s Class A status or removal of land from the Tetrahedron. We fully support developing viable water source and storage alternatives outside our Class A Park. We are committed to protecting drinking water source areas and working with the SCRD, as we have done for 30 years, in support of sustainable watershed solutions, such as those proposed by the new SCRD Chair Bruce Milne.
We have strong political leadership, community and NGO support and actions already being taken to develop viable alternatives which will ensure a diverse and sustainable water supply on the Sunshine Coast.
Please attend this Open House and the let the BC Government know, there is no justification for compromising our source area in Tetrahedron Provincial Park.
More information:
· LATEST SCCA Briefing: Tetrahedron Park & Sunshine Coast Water Supply
· Tetrahedron Provincial Park and the SCRD’s Chapman Lake Project FACTSHEET
· Chapman Lake Water Woes - Editorial in SCCA Newsletter
· Opinion of sitting SCRD Director, Lorne Lewis
· Milne urges Action On Reservoir
· SCCA Presentation to SCRD Sept 10, 2015
· SCCA Presentation to SCRD Infrastructure Services Committee, Aug 15, 2014
- Last Updated: Friday, 12 October 2018 01:01
Join us for our third annual Oceans Day celebration!
The SCCA is pleased to be partnering again with the District of Sechelt to present the third annual SECHELT OCEANS DAY!
Saturday, June 8th, 12 - 4 pm
Friendship Park - where Wharf Ave meets the Ocean
Enjoy an afternoon of FREE family fun featuring ocean-themed activities and games on the downtown Sechelt waterfront. Pick up your Oceans Day Passport at our info booth, and gain stamps at each activity for your chance to win prizes!
Here's some of what we have in store for you:
OPENING CEREMONIES: 12 pm
Live Music with the Knotty Dotters Marimba Band: 12:30 - 1 pm
Chalk-It-Up on the Wharf: 12 - 4 pm
Kids - pick up your chalk art kit and decorate the wharf with a collaborative ocean ecosystem mural! Pose for a picture with your completed masterpiece for a chance to win prizes, and be featured in our Oceans Day picture gallery.
Sechelt by the Seashore Scavenger Hunt: 12 - 4 pm
Get a team of friends or family together, and enter the scavenger hunt contest at our Oceans Day booth! Figure out the riddles to work your way through our fun and fantastic mystery tour of sea-related art, artifacts and features of Sechelt. The more riddles you solve, the more stamps you get in your Oceans Day Passport for better chances to win prizes!
Beach Seine: 1:30 pm
Join Fisheries and Oceans Canada Community Advisor Dave Davies to use a seine net to look for young salmon who are migrating now from the rivers to the ocean!
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup - 2 - 3 pm
New this year: two locations to choose from!
- Sechelt waterfront: Be a part of our third annual shoreline cleanup! Some gloves, picker-up'ers, garbage bags and buckets provided. Register online today, or just drop by!
- SUP-Supported Porpoise Bay Cleanup: Join Halfmoon Sea Kayaks to try out a Stand-Up Paddleboard AND do your part to clean the beach at the same time!
Register here, or contact halfmoonseakayaks@gmail.com, or 604.885.2948 to join in.
And tons of great activities presented by local and regional environmental NGOs and businesses like:
Georgia Strait Alliance
The Jellyfish Project
Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers
Salish Sea Nearshore Habitat Recovery Project
Sunshine Coast Wildlife Project
Marine Education & Research Society
Suzy's Beeswraps & Boomerang Bags
Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society
The Habitat Protection Project
Pacific Wild
Eco-Freako
Tours of Exploration
and more!
Want to get involved: volunteer, offer an activity, host an education booth, or donate? Contact info@thescca.ca.
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 04 June 2019 00:59
SCRD talks Chapman watershed again!
This Thursday morning, SCRD Directors will participate in a special Infrastructure Services Committee (ICS) meeting about our Chapman watershed system and the proposed projects to maintain adequate water supply.
You can read the agenda HERE including SCRD staff reports outlining details on the four proposed projects to address water supply issues: water metering, investigating wells, new storage reservoir, and deepening the channel to take more water from Chapman Lake.
The ISC meeting starts at 9:30 'in camera', but will be opened to the public after their initial discussion. This meeting will be followed directly afterward with a special Board meeting to review the report of the ICS committee.
So again, we encourage the community to participate in our democracy and come out in support of a sustainable watershed and water supply system by attending these meetings. We hope we don't have to wait too long for the public portion of the meeting, but we know that getting up-to-date information on our watershed, and showing up to support viable long-term solutions is well worth the wait!
We invite you to join us at the SCRD offices at about 10 am
Thursday, March 1st, 2018.
1975 Field Road, Wilson Creek
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:59
SCRD Board to revisit Chapman expansion
Concerned citizens filled the gallery at the SCRD offices for the February 8th Board meeting, where the Board discussed the letter sent from the District of Sechelt to the SCRD, "requesting that all reasonable and expeditious measures be taken to secure an expanded water supply on behalf of the District of Sechelt taxpayers and citizens."
A more fulsome discussion to re-evaluate the Comprehensive Regional Water Plan (CWRP) and the proposal to blast a trench to allow for more draw-down of Chapman Lake is now planned to take place at an upcoming special standing committee meeting on March 1st.
If you share the SCCA's concerns for the health of Chapman Lake and the sustainability of our water supply, please consider attending the upcoming SCRD meeting - we will post details on the upcoming discussions here. Stay tuned, or sign up for our enews to be sure you're in the loop.
Click here for the original agenda package for Feb 8th.
And here for the amended agenda.
See the post below for our SCCA Chapman Tetrahedron factsheet.
- Last Updated: Friday, 09 February 2018 19:21