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Changes said quietly: in the Legislature, or tucked into the Province’s newsletters.
The City of Abbotsford is installing two test pumping wells in Matsqui Prairie, each to be pumped steadily for about 10 days, to learn whether vertical wells there can reliably meet Abbotsford and Mission’s long-term water needs.
The newest entries in the BC Groundwater Changelog: dated, sourced and checked.
What callers and readers ask, answered in the first two sentences.
It depends on what the animals are kept for, not how many there are. Water for animals or poultry kept for household use or as pets is domestic and needs no licence. Water for an enterprise raising livestock, or for a kennel or a boarding stable, is an industrial purpose and does.
No tool gives a yes in advance. You can check what the Province’s technical review reads: the allocation notations on the source, the licences and applications already on it and, in five regions, a watershed report.
A household well in BC has a deemed right to its domestic use, and a registered one is on the record the Province consults when it decides an application. The application gets a technical review of whether the water is there, and affected landowners may be notified and given a chance to respond.
Not by that alone. A well record in GWELLS comes from the driller’s report or from a domestic well registration, and neither is a water licence. A licence is a separate authorization for non-domestic use, found through the Province’s water licence search.
It depends on what the animals are kept for, not how many there are. Water for animals or poultry kept for household use or as pets is domestic and needs no licence. Water for an enterprise raising livestock, or for a kennel or a boarding stable, is an industrial purpose and does.
No tool gives a yes in advance. You can check what the Province’s technical review reads: the allocation notations on the source, the licences and applications already on it and, in five regions, a watershed report.
Not by that alone. A well record in GWELLS comes from the driller’s report or from a domestic well registration, and neither is a water licence. A licence is a separate authorization for non-domestic use, found through the Province’s water licence search.
It depends on what the animals are kept for, not how many there are. Water for animals or poultry kept for household use or as pets is domestic and needs no licence. Water for an enterprise raising livestock, or for a kennel or a boarding stable, is an industrial purpose and does.
A household well in BC has a deemed right to its domestic use, and a registered one is on the record the Province consults when it decides an application. The application gets a technical review of whether the water is there, and affected landowners may be notified and given a chance to respond.
Check the source, dry season performance, water quality, and authorization. Get dated records and check the supply against what you are planning to do.
Not by that alone. A well record in GWELLS comes from the driller’s report or from a domestic well registration, and neither is a water licence. A licence is a separate authorization for non-domestic use, found through the Province’s water licence search.
The Province’s October 11 reading of its Kootenay-Boundary observation wells: six of eight below normal for the date, versus three of nine a year ago. Grand Forks is much below normal, and Midway is the lowest it has been for the date in its eight years of record.
Two provincial monitoring wells at 244th Street and 35th Avenue in Langley read below normal, and BC’s October 8 groundwater forecast gives each a greater than 90 percent chance of staying there to January 6.
A BC drought level is about how dry the region is, a watering stage is about your supplier’s system, and a boil water notice is about safety. None of them tells you how your own well is doing.
A household well in BC has a deemed right to its domestic use, and a registered one is on the record the Province consults when it decides an application. The application gets a technical review of whether the water is there, and affected landowners may be notified and given a chance to respond.
The Province’s October 11 reading of its Kootenay-Boundary observation wells: six of eight below normal for the date, versus three of nine a year ago. Grand Forks is much below normal, and Midway is the lowest it has been for the date in its eight years of record.
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Domestic use needs none. Irrigation, a livestock operation, a business, a greenhouse, or a strata’s well do. The deadline that waived fees passed on March 1, 2022, and an administrative penalty can reach $100,000.
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