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Road Maintenance and Landslides at Bernard Creek, on Kootenay Lake

November 17, 2020
Natural Resource Region: kootenay-boundary
District: selkirk

In November 2019, the Board received a complaint about damage to a licensed waterworks on Bernard Creek,  approximately 30 kilometres north of Riondel in the West Kootenays. A resident of a private campground alleged that maintenance work on the Bernard Creek Forest Service Road, completed by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD), caused landslides that damaged licensed waterworks and caused slope instability. The Board considered whether road maintenance completed by FLNRORD in 2015 complied with the Forest and Range Practices Act.

The Board conducts its work throughout British Columbia, and we respectfully acknowledge the territories of the many Indigenous Peoples who have lived on these lands since time immemorial.
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