GEORGIA BASIN INTER-REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE: “EAP gives municipalities the methodology and metrics that will let them add streams to their asset management strategy in terms of budget and plan,” stated Tim Pringle, Adjunct Faculty with the Master of Community Planning Department at Vancouver Island University
“Urban streams are rarely managed as ecological systems or as municipal assets. Rather, they are sliced and diced to suit land development objectives. And this has consequences. When local governments obtain a financial value for streams as spatial assets, however, they can include them in their asset management plans and budgets. We are moving EAP from a primary emphasis on Asset Management to use by planners for spatial analysis related to streams and trees,” stated Tim Pringle.