Walter Hardman Water Use Plan
What’s new
BC Hydro has begun engagement with local First Nations, regulators, key stakeholders and the public as part of the Walter Hardman Water Use Plan Order Review.
Walter Hardman Water Use Plan
The Walter Hardman Water Use Plan has been in place since 2004. Water Use Planning helps us balance our operational needs with other water use interests in the areas we operate across the province. The Water Use Plan Order Review is the last step of implementing the provincial Water Use Planning guidelines. It will determine whether the ordered water management constraints on BC Hydro’s operations are achieving the environmental and social objectives.
- Project initiated September 2003 and completed February 2004.
- The Walter Hardman Monitoring Program Synthesis Report [PDF, 4.6 MB] provides a summary of the studies undertaken for each Order.
- Consultative Committee [PDF, 3.4 MB] Report and draft Water Use Plan submitted to the Comptroller of Water Rights in August 2004.
- Executive summary [PDF, 121 KB] of Consultative Committee Report provides an overview of the water use planning process and outcomes.
- Water Use Plan [PDF, 745 KB] accepted by the Comptroller of Water Rights and implemented in March 2006.
Engagement
Throughout the WUPOR process there will be a number of opportunities to review information and provide feedback. Activities will include open houses and one-on-one meetings as needed. These events will help us work through the Order Review process over the coming months. BC Hydro plans to submit the Water Use Plan Order Review report to the Comptroller of Water Rights in early 2023.
We invite you to provide any comments or questions on the Walter Hardman Water Use Plan to southern-interior.info@bchydro.com.
Public information sessions, 2022
In September and December 2022, we held virtual public information sessions.
- December 5, 2022 Presentation [PDF, 4.23 MB]
- September 22, 2022 Presentation [PDF, 656 KB]
Annual Report
- December 2012 [PDF, 49 KB]
- December 2011 [PDF, 343 KB]
- December 2010 [PDF, 482 KB]
- December 2009 [PDF, 671 KB]
- December 2008 [PDF, 529 KB]
- December 2007 [PDF, 242 KB]
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| WHNMON-1 Lower Cranberry Creek Kokanee Spawning and Incubation Habitat Monitoring |
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| WHNMON-2 Lower Cranberry Creek Rainbow Trout Rearing Habitat Monitoring |
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| WHNMON-3 Walter Hardman Headpond Drawdown Impacts (Fish) Monitoring |
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| WHNMON-4 Lower Cranberry Creek Temperature Effects Monitoring |
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| WHNMON-5 Lower Cranberry Creek Rainbow Trout Abundance/Biology Monitoring |
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| WHNMON-6 Walter Hardman Generating Station Tailrace Habitat Monitoring |
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| WHNWORKS-1 Walter Hardman Diversion Dam Minimum Flow Release Facility Capital |
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| WHNWORKS-2 Cranberry Creek Annual Gravel Placement Program |
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