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Burrard Inlet Environmental Indicators Report February 2008 Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................................... i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 1 PART 1 – SETTING THE CONTEXT ........................................................................................ 3 PART 2 – LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND BURRARD INLET STATUS........... 8 PART 3 – THE INDICATORS.................................................................................................. 11 1. Tree Canopy Cover ....................................................................................... 12 2. Parks and Protected Areas.............................................................................. 1 3. Waterbird Abundance.................................................................................... 20 4. Air Quality...................................................................................................... 23 5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions.......................................................................... 23 6. Water and Sediment Quality.......................................................................... 23 7. Recreational Water Quality, Fecal Coliforms................................................. 23 PART 4 – REFERENCES........................................................................................................ 40 PART 5 – GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................ 43 List of Tables Table 1: Key Findings and Trends for Burrard Inlet Environmental Indicators.................... 2 Table 2: BIEAP Partners and Communities Bordering Burrard Inlet................................... 3 Table 3: Burrard Inlet Environmental Indicators .................................................................. 7 Table 2-1: Management Area Classes ................................................................................. 18 Table 2-2: Amount of Protected and Park Land in Burrard Inlet Watershed (total area and % of land in each management class) ........................................ 18 Table 2-3: Proportion of Land in Management Classes for Each Burrard Inlet Catchment ................................................................................................... 19 Table 5-1: Common Sources and Contributors of GHGs ..................................................... 28 Table 7-1: Burrard Inlet Beach Locations ............................................................................. 36 List of Maps Map 1: Basins and Catchments of the Burrard Inlet Watershed ....................................... 4 Map 2: Ortho-Image of the Burrard Inlet Watershed ......................................................... 5 Map 3: Developable vs. Undeveloped Areas for the Burrard Inlet Catchments .............. 13 Map 4: Location of Management Area Classes and RCAs in the Burrard Inlet............... 17 Page | ii
Burrard Inlet Environmental Indicators Report February 2008 List of Charts Chart 1-1: Current Land Cover across the Entire Burrard Inlet Watershed ..........................14 Chart 1-2: Current Land Cover in Developable Areas of Burrard Inlet..................................14 Chart 3-1: Waterbird Abundance in Burrard Inlet Since 1975...............................................21 Chart 4-1: Smog Forming Pollutants in the Canadian Portion of the Lower Fraser Valley, 2005 .........................................................................................................25 Chart 4-2: Total Smog Forming Pollutants (SFPs) in the Lower Fraser Valley (Canadian and United States Sources) ...............................................................25 Chart 5-1: Total Annual Emissions of GHGs Within the Burrard Inlet Airshed (marine and land sources, including vehicles) .....................................................29 Chart 6-1: Copper Concentrations in Burrard Inlet Sediment (1985 to 2005).......................32 Chart 6-2: PCB Concentration in Burrard Inlet Sediment (1985 to 2004) .............................33 Chart 7-1: Number of Days Burrard Inlet Beaches were Closed for Swimming (2002 to 2006)......................................................................................................37 Chart 7-2: Fecal Coliform Data for Deep Cove (2002 to 2006).............................................37 Chart 7-3: Fecal Coliform Data for Old Orchard Park (2002 to 2006)...................................38 Chart 7-4: Fecal Coliform Data for Sunset Beach (2002 to 2006) ........................................38 List of Figures Figure 1: Examples of Contaminant Pathways in the Burrard Inlet and Strait of Georgia Ecosystems............................................................................................10 Figure 5-1: Past and Future CO2 Levels in the Atmosphere ..................................................27 Page | iii
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