It’s that time of year! Even though there were plenty of April showers, Metro Vancouver’s lawn watering regulations will come into effect on Wednesday, May 1, and remain in place until October 15, in a concerted effort to conserve treated drinking water during the hot and dry summer months.
The Stage 1 regulations are being activated as part of Metro Vancouver’s Drinking Water Conservation Plan. Residents can water their lawn two mornings per week while watering trees, shrubs and flowers is limited to mornings only when using a sprinkler. An hour of rain or watering per week is all your lawn needs to remain healthy.
Metro Vancouver’s drinking water supply relies on snowpack, as well as cumulative precipitation to bolster the water levels in the three reservoirs that supply our drinking water.
Recent snowpack surveys conducted in the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds in early April 2019 show snowpack levels are slightly lower than average for this time of year, but reservoir levels are expected to reach 100 per cent by June. Metro Vancouver’s three alpine lakes — Palisade, Burwell, and Loch Lomond – which are used as reserves for the Capilano and Seymour reservoirs in late summer, are also anticipated to be at full capacity by early summer.
Although the region’s population continues to grow, overall water demand has historically remained relatively steady, generally offset by conservation measures. However, overall consumption is increasing gradually as the effect of the rate of population growth on water demands begins to exceed the per capita water use reductions.
Metro Vancouver Lawn Watering Regulations 2019
Local governments throughout Metro Vancouver enforce the lawn watering restrictions through local bylaw regulations.
STAGE 1 RESIDENTIAL LAWN WATERING ALLOWED:
Even-numbered addresses Wednesday, Saturday mornings 4:00am to 9:00am
Odd-numbered addresses Thursday, Sunday mornings 4:00am to 9:00am
Watering trees, shrubs and flowers is permitted any day, from 4:00am to 9:00am if using a sprinkler, or any time if hand watering or using drip irrigation. All hoses must have an automatic shut-off device.
STAGE 1 NON-RESIDENTIAL LAWN WATERING ALLOWED:
Even-numbered addresses: Monday mornings, 1:00am to 6:00am and Friday mornings, 4:00am to 9:00am
Odd-numbered addresses: Tuesday mornings, 1:00am to 6:00am and Friday mornings, 4:00am to 9:00am
Watering trees, shrubs and flowers is permitted any day, from 1 am to 9 am if using a sprinkler, or any time if hand watering or using drip irrigation. All hoses must have an automatic shut-off device.
BC Youth Week is coming up May 1-7, 2019 with dozens of events hosted across the province, created by youth for youth. In Coquitlam, there are 12 FREE events:
Coquitlam Youth Week Events
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
The Ultimate Cooking Challenge When: 3:15pm to 4:45pm Where: Maillard Middle School Kitchen, 1300 Rochester Ave Details: For ages 10 – 15 years. Bring your skills & creativity to the kitchen and create some impressive dishes with our secret ingredients. Four teams will compete to impress the professional chef judge and take home the prize. Call (604) 933-6166.
Youth Week Kick Off BBQ When: 3:30pm to 6:30pm Where: 1260 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam Details: Free Drop In! Enjoy some barbecue and music while trying out jumbo games for a chance to win prizes. Don’t forget to snap a selfie with our photo booth. For more information, contact: [email protected]
Join more than 200,000 British Columbians on May 2, 2019 to support BC Children’s Hospital in its work to help kids get back to being kids. Buy a Jeans Day pin, make a donation online, and don your head-to-toe denim as we #JeanUp for BC’s kids.
Jeans Day is May 2nd
Jeans Day buttons can be purchased for $5 and lapel pins for $20 at an official retailer – Save-on-Foods, PriceSmart Foods, Urban Fare, London Drugs, Thrifty Foods and Country Grocer.
By supporting Jeans Day, you’ll help ensure that children from across the province receive the best health care imaginable. Funds raised will help push forward innovative research, purchase advanced equipment, and create spaces and practices that prioritize the unique needs of kids and their families. Since it began in 1990, Jeans Day has raised more than $21 million to transform health care for BC’s kids.
Jeans Day BBQ
Where: BC Children’s Hospital – Lawn near Heather Street entrance (between W. 29th & W. 30th) in Vancouver
When: Thursday, May 2, 2019 11:30am to 1:30pm
Enjoy a BBQ with food and beverages from Truffles Fine Foods, and all of the BBQ proceeds will go to BCCHF. Meet celebrity athletes like Kirk Mclean and team mascot Fin of the Vancouver Canucks, Cody Husband and team mascot Leo the Lion of the BC Lions, and a Whitecaps FC team member and team mascot Spike. Join families of Jeans Day Champions Inara Hatfield and Thariq Daya, and interact with exhibits from Vancouver Aquarium, Science World and H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.
Follow BC Children’s Hospital on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more information. Share your best Canadian Tuxedo pics using the tags #JeanUp and #JeansDay.
Miss604 is proud to be a Jeans Day Ambassador for 2019
The Stanley Park Ecology Society is holding its own Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 27th at Lost Lagoon to support one of the planet’s most important ecosystems: wetlands.
Earth Day in Stanley Park
When: Saturday April 27, 2019 at 12:00pm to 4:00pm Where: Stanley Park Nature House Admission:Register online
In Stanley Park, our wetlands include Lost Lagoon, Beaver Lake,Ceperley Creek and all the freshwater spaces of the Park. These vital habitats act as nurseries, buffets, and shelter for a diversity of organisms including the Park’s Tree Swallows, Great Blue Herons, and a myriad of birds, amphibians and mammals like beavers and otters.
Pitch in to support your Park’s wetlands with some hands-on invasive plant pulls, invasive yellow flag iris weaving, and Tree Swallow data collection around Lost Lagoon.
Bring your binoculars for a tour of the heron colony with our naturalists, or learn about Indigenous uses of plants on a special walking tour led by Kushi opi mani wi of the Cowichan tribes. Kids will enjoy readings from the book “Bee Friend” followed by planting sessions in the pollinator garden. Enjoy Earth cookies and complimentary coffee from Ethical Bean.
Follow the Stanley Park Ecology Society on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information.
