Cowichan Watershed Board

Cowichan watershed clean-up gets $370,000 from federal Gas Tax Fund

By Peter W. Rusland, Cowichan News Leader Pictorial, May 05, 2012

Two-dozen great blue herons fed on Cowichan Bay's low-tide critters while regional brass got $370,000 Saturday to help make the bay's shellfish edible for everyone by 2020.

"This is phenomenal," local Meghan Loop said of the federal Gas Tax Fund money — presented at the Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre by B.C.'s Minister of Community, Sport and Culture Ida Chong – to help save the watershed's groundwater through pollution detection and prevention.

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The Cowichan Watershed Board’s mandate is to provide leadership for sustainable water management to protect and enhance environmental quality and the quality of life in the Cowichan watershed and adjoining areas.

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Hydrology of the Cowichan Watershed

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Tour of the Cowichan Watershed

From the high mountain ridges in the west, to Cowichan Lake, down the Cowichan River and its many tributary streams, to salt water in the Cowichan Estuary and Cowichan Bay, the Cowichan Watershed is a vibrant ecosystem, alive and rich in natural miracles. Yet there is almost no place in the watershed that does not show the impacts of human activities.

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