Expanding Water Monitoring within Canada’s Upper Columbia Basin

typeReport
authorDr. Martin Carver, PEng/PGeo, PAg; Greg Utzig, PAg
abstractIn June 2020, Living Lakes Canada convened and facilitated a hydrology workshop with the purpose of developing recommendations for a phased expansion of the monitoring network for the Upper Columbia Basin. The workshop objectives were: to develop criteria for selecting (priority) watersheds to be included in a regional watershed monitoring network; identify monitoring needs related to scientific objectives; to develop a process for ranking monitoring needs in terms of both site locations and measured parameters; and describe a potential phased implementation. Greg Utzig, PAg, and Dr. Martin Carver, PEng/PGeo, PAg, provided a proposed approach to expanding the UCB monitoring network, and then the 27 workshop participants actively engaged with the proposal, providing feedback on how it might be improved and implemented.
keywordscolumbia basin, upper columbia basin, water balance, hydrology, water monitoring
urlhttps://livinglakescanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/llc-wm-wkshp_prcdngs-final_oct-08-2020.pdf
date2020
publisherLiving Lakes Canada