Road Map for Sharing & Learning About BC …...1997 2002 2007 2010 2015 “Implementing a New Culture for Urban Watershed Protection & Restoration in BC” “Towards a Watershed Health

Road Map for Sharing & Learning About BC Watershed-Based Solutions & Tools

� MODULE 1: Convening for Action in BC

� MODULE 2: Mimic Natural Water Balance –

Developing Solutions that Build Resilience

� MODULE 3: Regional Team Approach -

Implementing Changes in Practice

� MODULE 4: Share Your Ah-Ha Moments

“By 2012, all land and water managers

will know what makes a stream healthy,

and therefore be able to help

land and water users factor in new approaches

to securing stream health and

the full range of stream benefits.” Gordon CampbellPremier of BC (2001-2010)

Page 43,

Living Water Smart, British Columbia’s Water Plan,released June 2008

In 2008, Premier Campbell issued a call to action….

In this Module #3, you will learn….

1. HOW a “regional team approach” aligns efforts

and accelerates changes in practice in BC

2. HOW local government champions in BC are

establishing watershed-based precedents

DEMONSTRATION OF WEB-BASED TOOLS

3. HOW the Water Balance Model Express helps

landowners meet performance targets

4. HOW the Drainage Infrastructure Screening

Tool can help local governments save money

5. HOW the Irrigation Scheduling Calculator works

Long-term success in implementing changes in

practice depends on the four components of

Green Communities being an integrated package

Our areas of

responsibility

Prepare communities for climate change.

Choose to live water smart.

Strive to build greener communities.

The Call

to Action

Partnerships

Legislation

Better

Information

Incentives

Green Communities

Initiative

In 2008, we coined the term

‘Regional Team Approach’ and….

“Insertion of the word team in ‘regional

approach’ has had a profound impact on

how practitioners view their world.

Team implies there is a personal

commitment; it also suggests there is a

game plan and a coachable context.”

Tim PringlePast-PresidentPartnership for Water Sustainability in BCJune 2010

The ‘regional team approach’

is founded on partnerships and collaboration;

and seeks to align actions at three scales –

provincial, regional and local.

“Everyone needs to agree on expectations

and how all the players will work together,

and after that each community can reach

its goals in its own way.”

Eric Bonham, founding member

CAVI-Convening for Action on Vancouver Island

2008

� The Province - those who provide legislative framework

� Local Government - those who plan, regulate and ….

operate, maintain and build

� Developers - those who build

� First Nations – those who connect to the land

� Stewardship Sector – those who advocate for conservation

� Agricultural Sector – those who grow food

� Academia - those who provide research

MISSION POSSIBLE

The ‘regional team approach’ brings together….

Five geographic ‘regions’ within the Georgia Basin

are sharing and cross-fertilizing tools, resources,

information and expertise

Comox Valley

Capital Region

Nanaimo Region

Cowichan Valley

Metro Vancouver

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“Through sharing & learning, ensure that

where we are going is indeed the right way”

Local government leaders are applying

science-based understanding to:

� develop tools

� establish precedents, and

� gain the experience…….

…. necessary to successfully implement,

through collaboration, an environmentally

adaptive approach to community design.

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Guiding principles for partnerships, collaboration,

alignment, innovation and integration under a

‘regional team approach’…

� We seek a common vision

� We create learning and networking opportunities

� We focus on the relationship between land and water

� We promote sharing of ideas and experience

Living Water SmartPage 73

‘Convening for Action’ experience shows that success will follow when local governments.....

1. Choose to be enabled

2. Establish high expectations

3. Embrace a shared vision

4. Collaborate as a ‘regional team’

5. Align and integrate efforts

6. Celebrate innovation

7. Connect with community advocates

8. Develop local government talent

9. Promote shared responsibility!

10. Change the land ethic for the better

This is what needs to happen to achieveintegration that leads to action

Critical Success Factors:

� Commitment to take action & deliver

� Champions to provide energy & drive

� Accountability to deliver at all levels

� Resources to get the job done

Inform, Educate & Inspire

Source: Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia, 2002

Watershed Health is a priority…..

� All regions have over-arching

strategies and/or plans

� Everyone is primed to move from talk to

implementation & integration

� Restoring watershed health

starts with an understanding of

“mimic the Water Balance”

� Collaboration will accelerate affordable & effective outcomes









4. HOW the Drainage Infrastructure Screening Tool

can help local governments save money


Province of BC position on integration of

regulatory compliance and collaboration

“Regulatory requirements provide a

driver for local governments to protect

and/or restore watershed health over

time. We also recognize that solutions

will be achieved through partnerships,

collaboration and regional alignment

of efforts.”

October 2011

Avtar SundherGovernment and Compliance Section Head

Environmental Protection Division, South Coast

Ministry of Environment

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Time period (5 years)

Age of Houses

Houses rebuild (hypothetic)

� 71% of the houses in Hoskins Creek were built before 1975.

� It is expected that houses older than 45 years will be renovated or rebuilt within the next 20 years.

What is the Rate of Redevelopment?Based on an analysis of house age and anticipated turnover

Time is of the essence

to catch the peak!

1. WHAT is the issue?

The form of land development

impacts how water is used and

how water runs off the land

2. SO WHAT can be done?

Influence practitioners to

‘design with nature’

3. NOW WHAT can we do?

Embrace share responsibility,

learn by doing and

establish precedents

4. THEN WHAT?

Replicate in other communities

This is the “BC process” for moving from Awareness to Action

Convening

for Action

City of Surrey embraces “Shared Responsibility”

“Once we know what we want our

watersheds and neighbourhoods to look

like, the next step is to decide what the

tools are that will get us there.”

“All of us ….whether we are regulators,

developers or designers ….need to

understand and care about the goal if we

are to create the future that we all want.”

Vincent Lalonde

City Manager

City of Surrey

March 2009

So, what does Shared Responsibility look like?

Application to Rainwater Management

“We now have the opportunity to

put in place the right tools to restore

watershed health.

The process starts with good policies

that cascade down in order to produce

action on the ground.

Everything that we need is in play.”

Gavin Joyce

General ManagerEngineering, Parks & FacilitiesDistrict of North Vancouver

Implementing a Watershed Blueprint

in the District of North Vancouver

A prescriptive approach was idealistic

and impractical, and failed in Coquitlam

“We want other local governments to

know about the good, the bad and the

ugly of the Coquitlam story so that

they may learn from our experience

and know that it is okay to stumble….

Develop approaches which balance

idealism with pragmatism.”Peter Steblin, P.Eng.

City Manager

City of CoquitlamJanuary 2014

“Agree on the vision. Set the targets.

Provide the planners with the detail

necessary to guide site level decisions

as opportunities arise.

Then implement.”

Jody Watson, ChairBowker Creek InitiativeCapital Regional District

October 2011

Capital Region’s Bowker Creek Blueprint -a truly integrated plan to restore watershed function over 100 years

“Slow, Sink and Spread Rainwater” –

City of Surrey’s Topsoil Requirement

“An absorbent landscape is

becoming a requirement for

new development. We

specify a minimum soil depth

of 300mm on residential

properties.” David Hislop, P.Eng.

Drainage Upland Engineer

City of Surrey

“Learning by Doing” –

Delta’s Rain Garden Program

Hugh Fraser, P.Eng.

Deputy Director of Engineering

Delta Municipality

“Storm Water Management innovation

in BC is the result of not being overly

regulated.

Establish sound principles. Apply them.

Adapt to the specific site conditions.

Do not be too prescriptive, it may take

away the opportunity for innovation.”

“Learning by Doing” –

City of North Vancouver’s Rain Garden Program

“Once you get started with any new process, you

get feedback that generates ‘collisions of ideas’.

The processes get better and the products

become stronger.”

Peter Navratil, P.Eng.

Deputy City Engineer

City of North Vancouver

“The City is prepared to take a chance in doing

business differently. Yes, there will be growing

pains and sometimes there will be mistakes. Yet,

this is what leads to innovation and efficiencies.”

Implementing a ‘regional team approach’ in

the Comox Valley is a long-term commitment

2008 - New Business as Usual

2009 - Getting Ahead of the Wave

2010 - Developer’s Dialogue

2011 - Regional Response to

Infrastructure Liability

2007 - 2014

2012 – A Guide to Water-Wise

Land Development

2013 – What a Watershed Blueprint Looks Like

2014 – Moving Towards

Sustainable Service Delivery

2007 – Vancouver Island Showcasing Green Infrastructure Innovation Series

ACTIONTALK

Moving along a continuum, knowledge expands

and becomes clearer over time.

1997 2002 2007 2010 2015

“Implementing a New Culture for Urban

Watershed Protection & Restoration in BC”

“Towards a Watershed Health

Legacy in the Georgia Basin”

“Context for Rainwater Management

& Green Infrastructure in BC”

“Beyond the Guidebook Series” records our progress.

Then What?

“Beyond the Guidebook 2015” would…

� Inform anyone involved

in a watershed health

monitoring process

� Be the starting point for sharing, learning and

adapting over time

� Be used by local governments to adjust actions,

inform community and watershed planning, and

create a legacy (i.e. healthy watersheds & streams)

Next, we will go online

to demonstrate……







3. HOW the Water Balance Model Express

helps landowners meet performance targets




Create a Project

A big house on a “small lot” has

replaced a small house on a “big lot” !

The WBM Express integrates

and balances three targets:

� Volume for Interflow Storage

� Release to Sustain Duration of

Interflow (Shallow Groundwater)

� Area to Allow for Groundwater

Recharge

How Volume, Release Rate and Area Targets

are implemented at the site scale….

This is a

“Rain Garden”

How well are you doing?

Calculator engine provides a weighted score on how well the site achieves watershed targets

Next, Jim will……












Ariel Estrada

Project Engineer

Facilities & Special Projects

District of North Vancouver

“Having a clear decision framework got us

off to a good start and kept us on track.

It is about treating all users of the system

equitably.

The screening tool has made it possible to

quantify the resiliency of each catchment.”

VISION: Assess impacts of land use densification

and climate change using a single tool

DESIRED OUTCOME: provide an

equal Level-of-Service for all properties

1. What is the existing level of drainage

service within the community?

2. What will be the effect of climate change?

3. What will be the effect of redevelopment?

4. What will be the effect of climate change on

redevelopment?

Drainage Infrastructure Screening Tool

North Vancouver’s Hastings Creek

Watershed Blueprint has demonstrated

how to:

� Integrate GIS input

� Apply Level-of-Service Methodology

� Quickly assess system performance

� Pinpoint problem areas

� Generate relevant information for

capital planning

Web-based and accessible from waterbalance.ca

Assessing catchments one-by-

one keeps the analysis logical,

simple and manageable

Analyzes the pipe network tributary to a

single drainage outfall

Land Use Layer Added to Pipe Layer

Making Decisions in North Vancouver’s

Lynn Valley Town Centre

Use of the screening tool

quickly identified the ‘weak

link’ in the existing system. The

DNV was then able to promptly

request that the affected

developer assess options and

undertake detailed design for

infrastructure renewalEast 27th Street

Pipe # Existing Climate Change CC & ReDev

02872 0.5 0.43 0.43

Making Decisions in North Vancouver’s

Lynn Valley Town Centre

Design Flow / Capacity

Asset ID

From

Manhole To Manhole

Diameter

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Length

(m)

Contributing

Area (ha) Existing

Climate

Change

Climate Change

and Land use

STMMN02894 STMMH02556 STMMH02578 300 41.3 0.14 0.26 0.22 0.22


STMMN02866 STMMH02550 STMMH02551 450 2.4 0 1.14 0.99 0.99


STMMN02901 DUMMH016 DUMMH100 900 22.9 0 1.09 0.95 0.92

STMMN02902 STMMH02582 DUMMH016 900 2.5 0.32 1.03 0.9 0.88

STMMN02898 STMMH02583 DUMMH186 1050 20.9 0 0.79 0.69 0.62

STMMN02904 DUMMH015 STMMH02581 1200 40.8 0 1.1 0.96 0.93

2. A ratio of less than 1.0 indicates a possible capacity problem

1. Scenario comparison of system performanceunder existing versus two future conditions

4. Size and length allows estimation of costs and allows budgets and priorities to be

established for future implementation

3. These three pipe lengths are the only ones in the Town Centre drainage system that would become of concern under future operating conditions

Level-of-service approach is inexpensive

and provides relevant information

� KEY FINDING is that the “90-10 Rule” applies:

� “Do Nothing” � 90% of system

� Investigate “Weak Links” � the other 10%

� AND FURTHERMORE, municipality can now:

� Do analyses in-house

� Generate immediate answers

� Establish capital budgets quickly

� Assign financial responsibilities

� AND � Focus effort on environmental opportunities!

Next, Ted will……












www.Irrigationbc.com

Irrigation Scheduling Calculator

Agriculture PilotFarm Water Use Reporting

An Overview of the Agricultural Pilot…..

� The application is designed to be an easy to use

online water usage reporting tool for Farmers.

� One landing page - no need for a separate Login page

for the Farmers and the Utilities using BC WURC.

� Self registration, linked to existing water licenses.

� Farmers will define their farm fields and link them to

their water licenses.

� Calculator function embedded in the application allows

farmers to easily calculate their water usage.

Agricultural Pilot for Water Use Reporting Tool

Agricultural Pilot for Water Use Reporting Tool

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Road Map for Sharing & Learning About BC …...1997 2002 2007 2010 2015 “Implementing a New Culture for Urban Watershed Protection & Restoration in BC” “Towards a Watershed Health