Watershed Wide Short Term Actions

Watershed Wide actions are those that apply across the watershed and not to a specific area of the creek. These short-term actions have been identified as a priority in the next 10 years.

1. Integrate Blueprint 2.0 goals and actions into municipal plans, strategies and projects as they come up for review or update using common language.

2. Identify Bowker Creek in natural asset inventories and explore options for its protection such as the development of natural asset management plans.

3. Complete an archaeological overview assessment of the entire Bowker Creek system in partnership with involved First Nations.

4. Implement a communication and engagement strategy to foster a culture of watershed stewardship and pollution prevention.

5. Develop and implement a Strategic Land Acquisition Plan that identifies a short-list of properties for acquisition to facilitate restoring and daylighting Bowker Creek which prioritizes flood-vulnerable properties and consider incorporating properties into municipal land acquisition strategies.

6. Explore daylighting design guidelines including typical cross-sections to achieve a consistent appearance (i.e., landscaping, and signage) for a variety of urban conditions and constrains.

7. Update stormwater modelling with updated climate change predictions to support climate resiliency and flood prevention.

8. Maintain flow monitoring stations and data collection to inform the stormwater master plan.

9. Explore invasive species prevention and management strategies that include target dates/budgets/plans for annual surveys and removal activities and embed these into municipal operational plans and budgets. Provide staff training to identify and map priority invasive species in the watershed, and to watch for and report new arrivals.

10. Review and update short-term actions in ten years.

For more watershed wide action view the Watershed Wide Action Table