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Location: Thompson, Governance Project Summary
For the past three and a half years, a community-driven planning process has been underway to come up with a water use management plan for the Nicola watershed. In 2008, the planning process will focus on · assembling/collecting/reviewing all the information and data collected to date; · identifying best management practices; · conducting an options assessment, including defining performance measures and estimating consequences; · developing the outline for a monitoring plan; and · preparing a draft plan which will be a synthesis of management options identified during the options assessment step. 2008 funding provided under the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program will be added to funding secured from the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Highland Valley Copper and the City of Merritt. The combined funding will pay for a facilitator (Compass Resource Management Ltd.) to work with the Steering Committee and the Multi-Stakeholder Committee; administrative support for the planning process, advertising and information dissemination to the community; maintenance of a web site; a series of meetings; and the preparation of the draft plan. The project, plan synthesis, is the final step of Phase 2, plan development. Plan development is the second stage of a four-phase planning process. The first stage was called plan initiation. Phase 3 is plan evaluation and approval and Phase 4 is plan implementation. Further information, including a description of the structure of the planning process, its mandate, the role of the various entities and participants, as well as the studies that have been conducted to date, can be obtained from the following web site: http://www.nicolawump.ca. See also: |
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