Discussion Paper 4 – water quality and source water protection July 2014 (pdf, 1.3 mb)

As identified in the results of a Boundary-wide survey, residents of the Kettle River Watershed have expressed a number of concerns about water quality and the safety and security of their source waters.

The purpose of this discussion paper is to outline issues, strategies and actions related to water quality and drinking water source protection. The paper builds on ideas discussed in previous papers, in particular “Discussion Paper 1: A Vision for the Kettle River Watershed” and “Discussion Paper 2: Working together – Growing our capacity for watershed stewardship in the Kettle River”. Water quality is also tightly linked to issues of water supply and conservation (Discussion Paper 3) and riparian, wetland and upland functions (Discussion Paper 5, forthcoming).