The Metro Vancouver watersheds, also known as the Greater Vancouver watersheds, supply potable water to approximately 2.7 million residents in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.[1] They provide tap water to a land area covering more than 2,600 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi), serving a total of 21 member municipalities, one electoral district, and one treaty First Nation.[2] From west to east, the watersheds are the Capilano (19,545 ha; 48,300 acres),[3] the Seymour (12,375 ha; 30,580 acres),[3] and the Coquitlam (20,461 ha; 50,560 acres).[3] They are located in the North Shore Mountains and Coquitlam Mountain, respectively. Each watershed possesses a reservoir for water storage purposes, under the control of Metro Vancouver. The reservoirs are supplied by about 3.5 metres (11 ft) of rain and 4.5 metres (15 ft) of snowpack annually.[4] Two additional off-catchment areas (Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve and Or Creek watershed) under control of Metro Vancouver contribute to the water supply.[3] The watersheds have a long history of controversies surrounding logging, highway development, and salmon run conservation.
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The MetroVancouverwatersheds, also known as the Greater Vancouverwatersheds, supply potable water to approximately 2.7 million residents in the Lower...
Mainland's drinking water. It captures water from one of the three MetroVancouverwatersheds. Construction was started in 1951 and completed in 1954. The dam...
the municipalities of MetroVancouver's North Shore (West Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver and the Village of Lions...
Columbia. It is one of the three main water sources for MetroVancouver, and part of the Coquitlam watershed. It is also a part of BC Hydro's power generation...
Dam "Watersheds and Reservoirs". MetroVancouver. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Capilano Lake. MetroVancouver Regional...
Valley and MetroVancouver) occurred in 1894. With no protection against the rising waters of the Fraser River, Fraser Valley and MetroVancouver communities...
Mount Burwell is a 1,541-metre (5,056 ft) mountain summit in the MetroVancouver Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the North...
reservoirs which collect rain and snow melt. Three watersheds - the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam Watersheds are the water source for more than two million...
the District of North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of twenty-one regional parks operated by the MetroVancouver. The park encompasses...
population of 148,625 in 2021, and one of the 21 municipalities comprising MetroVancouver. The mayor is Richard Stewart. Simon Fraser explored the region in...
sources of drinking water for residents of Greater Vancouver, and flows through the Capilano watershed. The Cleveland Dam, built in 1954, impounds a reservoir...
librarian. Since approximately age 11, she was raised in Decatur, Georgia (in Metro Atlanta). Don Saliers was the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor...
Pitt Meadows is a municipality within MetroVancouver in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Incorporated in 1914, it currently has a land area of...
Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Much of the coast is part of the Pacific Northwest megalopolis. The region is anchored by MetroVancouver...
area in Canada, with the 2021 census recording 2.6 million people in MetroVancouver. British Columbia is Canada's third-largest province in terms of total...
Vancouver and Vancouver Island. An unincorporated area, it is part of the MetroVancouver Electoral Area A which is a member of the MetroVancouver Regional...
900 businesses operated in the watershed and employed about 57,000 people. Adjacent to the Columbia Slough basin are the watersheds of the Sandy River to the...
city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the MetroVancouver Regional District. It envelops the east end of Burrard Inlet and is...
Streams City of Portland City of Gresham City of Vancouver Clean River Partners of Clackamas County Clark County Clean Water Services Metro Multnomah County...
Regional Park is an area of North Vancouver, British Columbia, and is the largest of twenty-two regional parks in MetroVancouver. At 9,216.5 acres (3,729.8 ha)...
fed by highly seasonal freshwater from the Olympic and Cascade Mountain watersheds. The mean annual river discharge into Puget Sound is 41,000 cubic feet...
Destination Vancouver Official Map (PDF) (Map). MetroVancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau. 2020. Downtown Vancouver and MetroVancouver inset. Retrieved...
of MetroVancouver and is owned and operated by the provincial energy authority, BC hydro. The lake is also one of three reservoirs used by Metro Vancouver...
also observed in other major watersheds in the region, including the Fraser River which inundated portions of the Vancouver area leaving 1500 people homeless...
files and Boards MetroVancouver[circular reference] Board and Committees Chair, Regional Parks Member of multiple MetroVancouver committees, including...
Profile, 2016 Census 9330162.04 [Census tract], British Columbia and Vancouver [Census metropolitan area], British Columbia". Retrieved September 27...
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