Stave River Water Use Plan - BC Hydro

Stave River Water Use Plan
Monitoring Terms of Reference June 13, 2005
e) Conduct a formal review of the monitoring program after 5 years, which will seek
and incorporate feedback from local management/stakeholder groups.
The primary responsibility of the Stave Management Committee will be to make
ongoing management decisions that pertain to the monitor, particularly in those monitors
that require a decision whether to continue after a specified time. The committee will
also be responsible for final review and general distribution of all reports that relate to
each monitor, including the preparation of annual summary reports of all monitors.
Program Cost
The overall program cost for the ten-year monitoring program is estimated to be
$1,703,000. This total is $137,000 less than the amount reported in the CC report
(Failing 1999) and represents a 7% reduction over initial estimates when adjusted for
2004 dollars. Another difference with the CC report proposal is the annual distribution of
monitor dollars. Rather than having all monitors start in year 1 and therefore, have a
very high initial cost to the monitor, the start dates were staggered over several years to
spread out sampling effort. As a result, annual costs are more evenly distributed over
the course of the monitor. A summary of the monitoring cost for the entire program,
including a comparison with monitor estimates presented by Failing (1998), is presented
in Table 1.
The monitoring plan budget estimate includes a provision for the development of
a ten-year detailed project plan, which includes the process of seeking final approval of
the plan with the Stave Management Committee. The cost given is the same as that
reported in the CC report (Failing 1998), but adjusted to 2004 dollars ($30,000), and is
only available in the first year of the program.
Also included in the budget estimate are the funds necessary for project coordination
and management, liaison with the Stave Management Committee, and the
preparation of annual summary reports. The assigned cost is the same as that reported
in the CC report (Failing 1999), but adjusted to 2004 dollars ($27,500). This project
management fund will be the same for every year of the program, though in actuality it is
likely to vary form year to year depending on the number of meetings with the
Management Committee, the number of ongoing studies, and prevailing circumstances.
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