Spring Network Meeting 2025
Thursday April 24th, 2025
10:00-12:00
Via Zoom
Our 2025 spring meeting had 18 participants – despite ongoing technical difficulties, everyone hung on until the end!
We briefly discussed some program updates including new equipment for 2025, site visit operations and rating shifts, and a few recent instances where Community Flow Monitoring Network station data was used by municipal and federal governments to inform projects related to fish passage and drainage modelling.
An open discussion period was had in which participants shared some recent challenges they have recently encountered related to site access, and future conservation projects planned for their streams. Continuing to increase the awareness of community-based monitoring efforts and data made available by the Community Flow Monitoring Network at the local level was also mentioned.
Following the discussion, Jon Jeffery (provincial hydrometric specialist) gave a brief Flow Network station data update.
We also received a guest presentation from Collin Middleton, an Environmental Flows Biologist from the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship on the Province’s recent efforts to update methodology and guidelines related to Environmental Flow Needs policy and Critical Environmental Flow Thresholds in BC.
To finish off the meeting, Sarah Hardy (provincial hydrometric specialist) gave a tutorial on how to access, download, and visualize Flow Network station data on the Aquarius WebPortal (https://aqrt.nrs.gov.bc.ca/). Sarah also went over how to use expanded rating tables to assess rating shifts in the field following a discharge measurement and the importance of assessing shifts to help with validating and maintaining quality rating curves. See the link below to view the how-to steps from Sarah’s slides.
A massive thank you to everyone who followed along through all of the technical difficulties this morning and attended the meeting through to the end. And an extra special thanks to Collin, Jon, and Sarah for presenting.
View slides from the meeting here: 2025 Spring Meeting Slides
A recording of this meeting will be made available shortly – check back soon