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Celebrating Water Festival 2024

Join the Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society for a day play, learning, tours and fun challenges. This year’s theme is “Weir All Connected”. Saturday, July 20, 10am to 2 pm in Saywell Park. Lake Cowichan. Weir Celebrating Water! The Koksilah Low Flow Working Group, a collaboration of government, industry,… Read more

Stage 2 Water Restrictions Begin July 11

Effective Immediately – July 11, 2024, all water systems across the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) are at Stage 2 (except CVRD Burnum and Woodley Range – Stage 3) water use restrictions in accordance with the Province moving East Vancouver Island to Drought Level 3. Thank you for conserving water… Read more

Cowichan communities begin Stage 1 water restrictions on May 1

COWICHAN VALLEY, BC – Once again on May 1, water systems across the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) will collectively implement Stage 1 water restrictions in an effort to conserve water use on residential properties and ensure aquifers and lakes can withstand the increasingly dry summers. As in 2023, movement… Read more

Memory Island Provincial Park Cleared of Scotch Broom

Shawnigan Lake, BC: Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) Parks & Trails volunteers along with BC Parks staff, and student BC Park Rangers, worked together this June to clear Memory Island Provincial Park of invasive Scotch broom. The small island located within Shawnigan Lake is a Provincial Park that is cooperatively… Read more