Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for Brtish Columbia:
“Founded on British Columbia case study experience, the Guidebook formalized a science-based understanding to set performance targets for reducing rainwater runoff volumes and rates,” reports Kim Stephens.
Rainwater Management on Vancouver Island: third in series of three regional events sponsored by EMCO
The EMCO Corporation has collaborated with the inter-governmental Water Balance Model Partnership to sponsor and organize three regional technical sessions on Rainwater Management in British Columbia. The first two events were held in Kelowna and Kamloops in late 2005. The third in the series was an evening session in Victoria in June 2006.
Metro Vancouver Develops Design Guidelines to Complement Water Balance Model
Rain Garden
GVRD
The design guidelines were commissioned in 2005 to reduce information barriers that stand in the way of effective implementation of rainwater source controls in the Georgia Basin region of British Columbia.
Celebrating Green Infrastructue Program: Showcasing Innovation Series Launched in Greater Vancouver Region
The “Celebrating Green Infrastructure Program” is an outcome of a Consultation Workshop that was organized by the Green Infrastructure Partnership in May 2005. The goal of the program is to build regional capacity through sharing of green infrastructure approaches, experiences and lessons learned as an outcome of ‘designing with nature'. The program was launched in May 2006 when the first event in the 'Showcasing Innovation Series'was hosted by the District of North Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver program is a provincial pilot. The intention is that local governments on Vancouver Island and in the Interior will undertake similar initiatives.
Rainwater Management Community-of-Interest:
COI Table of Contents – updated December 2009
This Community-of-Interest is the web-delivery vehicle for informing practitioners about the latest advancements in the state-of-the-practice for rainwater management.
Water Balance Model insights inform New Zealand delegation
“The key is what we do at the site scale because our actions over time can either have cumulative impacts or cumulative benefits. Drawing on the District’s GIS resources, I was able to identify representative properties from different eras – 50 years ago and today – to illustrate how the current approach to site development results in dramatically greater volumes of surface volume,” stated Richard Boase.
Landscape Irrigation Scheduling Calculator
The Irrigation Industry Association of British Columbia (IIABC) has developed this Landscape Irrigation Scheduling Calculator to assist irrigators in developing a proper irrigation schedule taking into account the location, landscape, soil and irrigation system operation parameters. The calculator will provide the irrigator with the number of days to water, the irrigation run time for each day and the maximum run time per cycle.
Water Balance Model
Developed by a BC-based Inter-Governmental Partnership as an extension of Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia, the Water Balance Model for Canada enables users to compare scenarios for rainwater runoff volume reduction in order to achieve a light 'hydrologic footprint'. The tool is developed by a consortium of local, regional, provincial and federal agencies.
Drainage Planning in Britsh Columbia:
From a drainage planning perspective, “Sustainability” means Design with Nature to improve the Built Environment while at the same time protecting the Natural Environment. The desired outcome is to sustain community livability.
Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia (released in 2002)
Founded on British Columbia case study experience, the Guidebook formalized a science-based understanding to set performance targets for reducing rainwater runoff volumes and rates. These targets represent the synthesis of biological and hydrological understanding. Structured to meet the information needs of different audiences, the Guidebook formalized the ‘Integrated Strategy for Managing the Complete Spectrum of Rainfall Events’,