The District of North Vancouver’s Bold Vision for a Municipality-Wide Integrated Rainwater Management Plan

Risk to Watershed Health

The District of North Vancouver has a bold vision to systematically retrofit individual properties as they come up for redevelopment. The catalyst for pending action is the ‘death by a thousand cuts’ consequences for watershed health.

“To draw attention to the urgent need for action on single-family residential properties, we have created a set of images to illustrate why and how watershed health is at risk. Mackay Creek is our case study,” states Richard Boase, the District’s Environmental Protection Officer.

To Learn More:

To read the complete story posted on the Rainwater Management Community-of-Interest, click on The District of North Vancouver’s Bold Vision for a Municipality-Wide Integrated Rainwater Management Plan.

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Click on How the Tree Canopy Protects Urban Stream Health: “The right trees in the right places intercept rainfall”, says IGP Co-Chair Richard Boase — Trees can intercept upwards of 50% of the rain that falls each year on a watershed. Removing the tree cover means that more and more rainfall is converted into runoff volume.

Posted September 2010