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Melony Burton

CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION: “All regions were dealing with challenges associated with watershed monitoring. Each was at a different point along the watershed health continuum. Each region had something unique to contribute,” stated Kate Miller about the period 2012 – 2017 covered in Part E of the Chronicle

April 21, 2026


“Communities were struggling with the Watershed Health issue. Inter-regional collaboration helped five regions understand what the other regions were doing, what works and what does not. We viewed the issue through complementary lenses that together formed a complete picture. Each region had something unique to contribute to the mix. For the Cowichan Region, it was climate change adaptation,” stated Kate Miller who co-represented the Cowichan Valley Regional District on the 2014 Georgia Basin Inter-Regional Education Initiative Leadership Team.

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CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION: “You work with the politics of the day, and you have to be savvy. You must read your politicians,” advises Carrie Baron, former Drainage Manager with the City of Surrey, in Part B of the Chronicle

May 13, 2025


“What are their pressures? Try to make what you need to do fit their pressures,” stated Carrie Baron. “It is about perseverance and trying to work with the system to move good ideas forward.” Three words define Carrie Baron’s engineering career: leadership, innovation and science. She was consistently on the leading edge in advancing green infrastructure and protecting stream health. “The lucky part was that the people who set the groundwork at the lower levels all advanced to senior levels where their duties were bigger than drainage. But they all had that base knowledge.”

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