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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.
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.
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.
Watering cattle on a ranch is an industrial use under BC’s water rules. Here’s why, and why it matters on your application.
Nobody phones a well owner when BC’s groundwater rules change. The Wire tells you first: what changed, who it affects, and what to do about it.
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BC Groundwater WireWritten from inside BC’s groundwater trade.