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Changes said quietly: in the Legislature, or tucked into the Province’s newsletters.
BC community farm water projects can seek up to $2 million at 50 percent until October 29. Farms can’t apply themselves, and water well construction isn’t covered.
The newest entries in the BC Groundwater Changelog: dated, sourced and checked.
If your farm or business used groundwater when the Act took effect in 2016 and never applied by March 1, 2022, here’s where you stand.
If your water well serves only your household, no. If the groundwater does anything else, you likely need a BC water licence. Here’s where the Province draws the line.
Lenders and grant programs now ask about BC groundwater licences, often before the Province does. For rural property owners with a farm or business well, that changes where the risk sits.
Every Wire lives in one of eleven. Open one to read it from the start.
Domestic use needs none. Irrigation, stock watering, a business, a greenhouse or a strata’s well do. The deadline that waived fees passed on March 1, 2022, and an administrative penalty can reach $100,000.
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