Consolidated Environmental Management Plan for Burrard Inlet

Indian Arm
BELCARRA
PORT
MOODY
Port Moody Arm
ANMORE
COQUITLAM
Putting the Plan into
Action: Twenty-one Actions
for Ecosystem Health
The Plan identifies over twenty-one explicit
actions to protect, manage and improve
Burrard Inlet’s ecosystem. These actions are:
Water Quality and Waste Management
1. Coordinate the management of liquid waste
in Burrard Inlet.
2. Implement a coordinated ambient water
quality monitoring program for Burrard Inlet.
3. Review the provincial permit discharge
standards for industrial wastes.
4. Explore ways BIEAP could contribute to air
quality initiatives in the region.
5. Contribute to the effort to reduce
non-point source pollution in Burrard Inlet.
Contaminated Lands and Sediments
6. Develop Industrial Best Management
Practices (BMPs) and strengthen partnerships
with the industrial sector.
7. Prepare and implement a sediment
management plan for False Creek.
8. Develop a database to monitor historically
contaminated lands and sediments in
Burrard Inlet.
9. Develop risk-based sediment management
plans for historically contaminated areas of
Burrard Inlet.
10. Use global research efforts to provide
management options for contaminated lands
and sediments.
Healthy Ecosystems and Biodiversity
11. Protect and enhance existing “protected”
areas in Burrard Inlet.
12. Contribute information to the Greater
Vancouver Biodiversity Conservation
Pilot Study.
13. Use legislative tools and designations such
as Marine Protected Area legislation, Wildlife
Management Areas and ecological corridors to
protect and enhance valuable areas in the
Burrard Inlet ecosystem.
14. Provide resources to municipal, regional
and port planning initiatives along the shoreline
and in adjoining watersheds.
15. Provide support and technical expertise to
community stewardship groups in their efforts
to improve the environment in Burrard Inlet.
16. Identify areas for habitat compensation
banking.
17. Develop environmental guidelines for
recreation access, and park development
and maintenance.
18. Update and promote the BIEAP Shoreline
Development Guidelines.
19. Develop pilot projects in cooperation with
the public and private sectors to showcase
innovative environmentally sensitive designs.
20. Develop an inventory of archeologically
significant sites.
21. Develop models to deal with the
cumulative effects of development within
Burrard Inlet.
The Plan also identifies ecosystem actions
for the six sub-basins within Burrard Inlet along
with a series of communication and education
strategies.