
Both Glen Urquhart and Mallard drain into the Hollyhock Flats area on the other side of the
Project Watershed partnered with Ecofish Research Ltd. on this project – Ecofish generously
provided a substantial amount of in-kind labour and expertise. Project Watershed contacted local land owners including Ducks Unlimited Canada and the BC Nature Trust to access these streams thorough their properties and survey work was undertaken last fall. The results are now being complied. The data will be used to update and add to Project Watershed’s Sensitive Hapitat Mapping Work compiled for Mallard (Map) and Glen Urquhart (Map, Report) last updated in 2003.

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his survey data was also identified as an information gap by a stakeholder committee led by the CVRD that is looking at the functioning of the Dyke Slough tide gates (which control salt water intrusion into the adjacent farmland). These gates limit salmonid access into to the slough and into Mallard and Glen-Urquhart Creeks. The aim of the stakeholder committee is to determine if and how tidal inundation can be introduced to the slough to facilitate more fish access, while balancing the freshwater values of the slough for other wildlife and the socio-economic value of farming around the drainage.
