Conditional Management Plan summary for French Creek, British Columbia

This document provides a description of the shellfish growing area that is managed under a Conditional Management Plan (CMP) for Parksville and Qualicum Beach (BC). It also describes the detection, notification and response (DNR) times needed for parties to fulfill their CMP roles when sewage is discharged from the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) system.

Detection, notification and response

The time taken for a sewage discharge to be detected, and for stakeholders and authorities to receive notification of the discharge is:

• within 1 hour

The time taken for federal authorities to respond to the sewage discharge by officially closing an affected shellfish area is:

• within 1 business day of receiving notification

Area classification description

Shellfish harvest areas near the WWTP are divided into zones based on how intermittent sewage discharge from the WWTP will impact the sanitary quality of the water. Harvesting activities in these zones are classified as either:

• prohibited
• restricted
• conditionally restricted
• conditionally approved.

The current classification of the Parksville and Qualicum Beach Shellfish Growing Area subsector is described as follows:

Area 1 – Emergency sanitary closure 14.hh: Hall Road, town of Qualicum Beach:

Conditionally approved

The waters and intertidal foreshore inside a circular arc with a radius of 6,500 m, and excluding the areas already included in Annual Closures, 14.10, 14.16 and 14.31 centered at a point on land at 49°21.550’ north latitude and 124°25.490’ west longitude, which intersects the shoreline at 49°22.040’ north latitude and 124°30.810’ west longitude and again at 49°20.430’ north latitude and 124°20.430’ west longitude, near Hall Road in the Town of Qualicum Beach.

Please note that the coordinates described above reference the North American Datum of 1983 [NAD83].

Shellfish growing area classification map