Environment committee  Some of the things we are doing in the creeks involve building better riffle pool areas where they may have been disturbed in the past, doing minor erosion repairs, and doing additional planting. Sometimes we will do wetland planting on aquatic benches and do some more in the rip

Environment committee  One of the prime examples where we have been putting in a lo is down in the Campbell system in the Campbell Heights industrial area. It was an old gravel pit. We've been revegetating it, building riffle pools, and doing the wetlands, and we now have the salmon returning up the sy

Environment committee  For us, a lot of our walkways, our nature paths, and our greenways are around these things. They're not in the riparian area, but they're just outside of it. Also, they're one of the most important wildlife corridors connecting different aspects of the city, whether it's through

Environment committee  Well, with the new land development practices, we're applying low impact development. Any time a road widens, say, they have to address water quality before the discharge goes into creeks. Any new development has to address water quality before it goes into the creeks. On our deb

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. Welcome, honourable members, and thank you for allowing me to talk to you on urban conservation and how it relates to Bear Creek Park in Surrey. I gave you some figures in my package. In figure 1, for those who don't know, we have the Fraser River to our nor