Welcome!

First let me introduce myself. I am a retired geotechnical engineer who came out of retirement to help manage this important project and I am pleased to be able to contribute. Born in Edmonton, but I grew up in Duncan and graduated from ‘Cow Hi’ many years ago. My wife and I have a house on Cowichan Lake since 1995 and understand the beauty and the opportunity such a privilege provides.

We have noticed the impact of climate change over the years with longer, hotter dryer summers and how the river has had to endure extra low flows throughout the past few summers.

This project to design a new weir and understand the impact of that change on the perimeter of the lake is an important step to ensuring sustainable future healthy flow down our heritage Cowichan River.

Through this website, I will be providing you with my updates.

I would have liked to meet in a more public face to face forum, unfortunately COVID-19 has not made this possible and has changed the way we think and how we currently do ‘business’.

Please take part in the survey so we can understand your thoughts as we start to design your new weir.