The GWELLS well records near your BC property tell you what other drillers found. They don’t promise anything. Here’s how to read them.
From the other sections, while this one grows.
Aquifer recharge is on BC’s list of water storage ideas, with Langley, the South Okanagan, Merritt, and Parksville named as candidates. A new study modelled where water must go into the ground to feed a stream months later: about 4 percent of the area studied qualified.
Before the October 24 vote, the BC Agriculture Council asked the parties for written commitments on farm water. What it asked, and what hasn’t changed.
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.
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