The recently completed local government guidebook for establishing constructed wetlands in the Okanagan is now available online at www.obwb.ca/wetlands. The overall objective of this guidebook is to provide information to support local governments in designing and implementing constructed wetlands for…
Blog Archives
Guidebook for Constructed Wetlands in the Okanagan
Posted in Articles
Tags: constructed wetlands, guidebook, Okanagan, Okanagan Wetlands Strategy, wetlands
Tags: constructed wetlands, guidebook, Okanagan, Okanagan Wetlands Strategy, wetlands
Wetlands talk and your
February 7, 2016 – Kelowna Daily Courier
Mission Creek restoration project begins Monday in Kelowna
October 28, 2015 – InfoTel News
Okanagan Wetlands Benefit From Funds and Strong Partnerships
Kelowna, B.C. – The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) and Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) held a joint news conference today at Fascieux Creek Wetland in Kelowna, welcoming new funding from Environment Canada towards Phase 2 of the Okanagan Wetlands Strategy…
$100,000 Funding Announced for Okanagan Wetlands
Kelowna Now – November 7, 2014 Environment Canada is funding two years of wetland restoration and rehabilitation in the Okanagan.
Okanagan Wetlands get $100,000 in funding
Global Okanagan – November 7, 2014 Thanks to Environment Canada, Okanagan Wetlands took in $100,000 for the second phase of their strategy. The announcement on Friday came from the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) and Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA).
Restoration project launched for McLauchlan Lake, above Peachland
Kelowna Capital News – October 29, 2014 The first wetland restoration is underway as a result of the Okanagan Wetland Strategy. The last posts to fence off McLachlan Lake or Slough, as it is colloquially referred to by those who…
Okanagan Wetlands Strategy
The Okanagan Wetlands Strategy is a three-phase effort to re-establish wetland ecosystems. Wetlands are areas that hold water either temporarily or permanently. Some types of wetlands are sloughs, ponds, marshes, swamps and bogs. They are rare habitats in the dry…
Okanagan: Three wetland restoration initiatives set to motion
Kelowna Capital News – September 12, 2014 The Okanagan Wetlands Strategy the Okanagan Basin Water Board is overseeing will foster three projects intended to improve or restore wetlands before March, members of the Water Stewardship Council were told Thursday. It’s…
Project Manager – Okanagan Wetlands Strategy Phase II
The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) is seeking a contractor to provide Project Management services (2.5 days/week – flexible schedule) with a strong wetlands background for community stewardship, extension, and support for the Okanagan Wetland Strategy – Phase II project.…
Okanagan Wetlands Strategy completes phase one
Kelowna Capital News – April 23, 2014 The Central Okanagan has some of the better protections for wetlands in the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys, according to work done during the first phase of the Okanagan Wetlands Strategy. The strategy is…
Wetland loss blamed for most endangered species in Okanagan
Kelowna Capital News – December 4, 2013 The Okanagan Wetlands Strategy currently underway is a great start to turning around the trend of wetland devastation in the valley, according to locally-born ecologist, bird biologist and nature writer Dick Cannings. He…
Plan in works to bring back wetlands
Daily Courier – November 28, 2013
Open House to save Okanagan Wetlands
AM1150 – November 27, 2013
Okanagan Wetlands Strategy – Workshop November 28
DID YOU KNOW…more than 85% of the Okanagan’s wetlands & natural riparian areas are gone? And, the remaining areas are at risk of loss. We are developing an Okanagan Wetlands Strategy in partnership with BC Wildlife Federation and Regional District of Central…
... Collaborative Water Management
... Water Quality Improvement
... Aquatic Weed Management
- SNC-Lavalin probe dropped - Canada News - Castanet.net
- Central Okanagan on flood watch as snow melts - Salmon Arm Observer
- Trail of broken hearts, theft - Canada News - Castanet.net
- Tightrope of floods, drought - Penticton News - Castanet.net
- Sewer for Swan Lake area - Vernon News - Castanet.net
- Rainwater runoff control lagging in Canada says UBCO - The Daily Courier
- Okanagan organization helps provide water for all in Nepal - Summerland Review
- North Okanagan wastewater project petition process successful - Vernon Morning Star
- Our water future is just beginning“Patience, time and money accommodate all things.” – Spanish Proverb BC is in the middle of another resource development boom. Water isn’t one of them, but as always, is central to everything. More than 100 years ago, the Water Act was … Continue reading →
- Not waiting for Noah“Planning is best done in advance.” – Anonymous Flying into Calgary at the end of June, everyone on the plane was glued to the windows, staring at the mess of mud and debris from the Great Flood. Eventually, rivers always … Continue reading →
- Zebra mussels: scarier than Jurassic Park.“They’ll clump on rock, they’ll clump in pipe, and they’ll clump mussel-next-to-mussel-atop-mussel in astonishing congregations of as many as 70,000 individuals a square foot” – Sue McGrath It’s hard to get people excited about invisible threats that haven’t arrived yet, but … Continue reading →
