~ Sooner or later, we sit down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Tsolum River Restoration Society

 

  WELCOME to our Website

This site will be undergoing a major re-vamping. Please contact us if you have any suggestions, photos, or videos that you would like to see posted.


  

December 2014 Record Flooding

Flows reached 282 cubic metres per second, surpassing the record set on Dec 24, 2010 of 278 cubic metres per second. 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tsolum River is closed to all fishing year round due to special conservation values. Please see the "About TRRS" Page.

            

 Rainwater Management

work being done by Convening for Action On Vancouver Island (CAVI) 

Check it out! Click Here



From "Mary"; a student studying water conservation found this website. Please share...

 http://www.improvenet.com/a/water-conservation-at-home


click here for Tsolum Legacy Video

For more information please call Jack at 250.897-4670 (please leave a message with your name and number if no answer) or email tsolumriver@shaw.ca


Excellent videos and films about the Tsolum River

by filmmaker Ed Homer

Click Here for Ed's full website



 Check out this link about Garry Oaks...



Click here to view the Latest Minesite Graph 

 Call 250.897-4670 

or email tsolumriver [at] shaw.ca or go to our "Contact Us" page

The Tsolum Celebrates Another Year in the Right Direction

Water Quality continues to improve, we are understanding the fish cycles better  and we have  small improvements in pink and coho salmon and cutthroat trout numbers.  In addition, banks continue to be stabilized, riparian zones replanted and our knowledgable membership grows with dedicated volunteers and landowners throughout the 260 sq. Km watershed.

Thanks to a $4.5 million dollar allocation of BC taxpayers money to remediate the old mine we have effectively seen the end of 44 years of acid rock drainage.

Now we tackle the next limiting factors to the health of the river and you can help! We are currently designing a series of studies to complete our Biophysical understanding and to create a baseline upon which to measure our successes as we move forward.


Motivated by the two highest flow events in the history of the Tsolum River (November 2009 and December 2010) that caused flooding in the City with roads closed, infrastructure threatened and residents unable to access their homes a report was commissioned by the City, RD and TimberWest. 

 

Click here for the report

 

 


 Latest from the Minesite

The site is covered and ready to plant!
 
Woody debris had been spead on the site on top of the till and organic soils to prevent snowmobiles and ATV's from bombing all over the site tearing it up and for long-term organic material as the woody debris rots over time providing nutrients for revegetation.
 
 
 
 
                      
 
 
 
 
Latest Video from the old mine site!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yCh7Dci8l0

You are reminded that this site is an active mining operation and is OFF LIMITS to vistors! Trespassing charges will be laid. 

 Latest Data From Spectacle Lake Wetland has shown higher levels leaving than levels entering. This is not indicitive of poor performance but of lag time due to lower flows moving through very slowly. The higher levels from an earlier reading take so long to move through the wetland they are leaving at a time when lower levels have been recorded entering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 
 ART CARDS and PRINTS Available

A wonderful set of art cards and prints are available from the TRRS. Featuring the fine photography of Father Charles Brandt these can be purchased by calling Willa Cannon at 250 337-8524                 

These are an ongoing fundraiser for the TRRS with all sales going to make fish, repair habitat and complete watershed planning

Latest News

Tsolum Celebrates this year!
With water quality back to normal, a run of 60,000 pinks and 2500 coho it is time for us to throw a party!
A free (voluntary donation/membership at door) family-friendly event ...

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Breaking News - Posted by: Jack Minard on Saturday February 8, 2014 at 11:21 am

RST In water earliest ever!
Mergansers and Kingfishers are actively fishing in the River. This means the pink fry are on the move.
This is far earlier than just a few years ago as timings are changing it ...

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Breaking News - Posted by: Jack Minard on Saturday February 8, 2014 at 11:02 am

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