Nakusp and Arrow Lakes Area The following are interests area residents identified in past public engagements. Category Sub-category Objective Notes

General  Ecosystem integrity  Support ecosystem  Climate Change resilience and  Balance competing productivity land use needs.  Understand impact of climate change and glacial recession on water levels Recreation  Water and shoreline  Maximize quality and  Preferred levels for access for recreation diversity of recreation between 1435  Water access for recreational ft and 1440 ft – offset boating and fishing activities with new boat ramps?  Sufficient beach area  Arrow Recreation  Boating access for Management Plan – recreational and fish monitoring and physical harvest – spring to works (ramps, debris fall management, dredging)  Boating/swimming safety Quality of Life  Aesthetic impacts for  More stable Duncan Management Plan beach front properties reservoir levels – mosquitoes  Water quality  Communication of  Health and nuisance changes in levels issues like dust storms  Minimize periods of and mosquitoes below 1435 ft  Increase re- vegetation program  Maximize quality of life Flood and Erosion  Property Damage  Minimize wave and  Data collected for 3 of 5 wind impacts on years monitoring of wave scarp stability and winds impacts on  Minimize scarp stability (Berkey surcharging of 2012) reservoir  Multi-year management  Minimize full pool protection plans and events and sudden monitoring programs to draw downs be developed following  Avoid double peaks inventory (Berkey 2012)  Protection of Argenta Slough First Nations  Representation of  Increase  Separate First Nations aboriginal interests understanding of consultation process  Understand and sites and their under the Columbia protect cultural sites locations River Treaty Review

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Nakusp and Arrow Lakes Area The following are interests area residents identified in past public engagements. Category Sub-category Objective Notes

and artefacts  Minimize impact of  BC Hydro Reservoir  Support and ensure destructive human Archaeology Program First Nations’ ability to behaviour  Arrow site survey and harvest for food,  Access to inventory work has been cultural and archaeological sites initiated, an initial 2 year ceremonial purposes by appropriate study completed (at least  First Nation people 50 sites identified) and involvement in (communicate when continuing studies to be research, monitoring low water levels) conducted. and management  Abundance/ diversity  Exploratory/conservation  Sinixt of traditional plants, evacuations and fish & wildlife monitoring at Arrow and  Reservoir levels high Duncan enough to access  Duncan: 2 of 5 years of tributaries studies completed for  Resolution of Sinixt monitoring cultural sites claim & traditional use information collection to be undertaken  Physical protection of known sites through re- vegetation, geo-textile material (exploring)

Wildlife and  Migratory birds  Lower reservoir  Arrow Reservoir Wildlife vegetation  Nesting Habitat levels in the spring Management Plan – 7  Wildlife habitat and summer to studies & physical works  Riparian Habitat protect migrating  Columbia Basin  Littoral Productivity birds Amphibian Inventory  Protected Areas  Minimize inundation  Arrow Re-vegetation  of nesting habitat, Management Plan uses particularly for early local species and or late nesters traditional plants where  Maximize capacity of possible. (BCH 2011) wetlands and other  FWCP – West Kootenay bird habitat to Enhancement program provide for spring for ungulates nesting, shore birds  Soft constraint – Apr-Oct and fall migratory min water levels above birds. 1424 ft (434m)  Maximize abundance  Optimal water levels at and diversity of 435 m for shorebird wildlife populations habitat and below 438 m  Maximize wildlife by Aug 7 for migratory

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Nakusp and Arrow Lakes Area The following are interests area residents identified in past public engagements. Category Sub-category Objective Notes

habitat birds  Minimize inundation of vegetation during growing season  Maintain vegetation at and above 1424 ft Fish and Aquatic  White Sturgeon  Increase tributary  Arrow – Mid-Columbia Resources  Kokanee access and minimize White Sturgeon  Bull Trout migration barriers Aquaculture progam –  Cutthroat Trout during Kokanee and alignment with CPC  Rainbow Trout bulltrout spawning.  Kokanee survive better  Whitefish  Build self sustaining at 1430 ft, especially  Salmon population of white during the spawning  Nutrient restoration sturgeon. period  Water temperature  Maximize juvenile  BCH negotiates for recruitment of white rainbow trout protection sturgeon flows from Hugh  Maximize the Keenleyside abundance,  Multi-year study of diversity, condition, tributary fish migration growth and under Arrow Lakes fecundity of priority Reservoir Management fish species. Plan (late Aug – Nov)  Minimize predation  Burbot life history study of key species. under the Arrow Lakes  Minimize possible Reservoir Operations negative effects on Management Plan fish and their  Duncan dam operated to habitats allow bull trout in and  Minimize impacts to out of the reservoir and fish from rising water prevent fish stranding temperature  Duncan fall flows have  Maximize pelagic been developed for and littoral spawning and incubation productivity of Kokanee and whitefish  Maximize reservoir  Duncan plan develops (Revelstoke) stability spawning side channels to maximize fish  Aquatic Nutrient productivity Restoration Program on  Fish hatcheries on Arrow Lakes Arrow Lakes  Meadow Creek and Hill  Fish ladders on dams Creek spawning channels  Bring Salmon up the built for Kokanee Columbia if  Arrow outflows reduced

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Nakusp and Arrow Lakes Area The following are interests area residents identified in past public engagements. Category Sub-category Objective Notes

technically and for whitefish spawning economically (Whitefish Operating feasible Agreement)  Re-introduction of salmon would have negative impact on Kokanee Cross border  Cross border  Cross border  Provincial biologists collaboration engagement and conference to working with U.S. on collaboration understand issues Kootenay River White and identify mutual Sturgeon program and interests on a bulltrout enhancement program Commercial  Tourism and other  Maximize waterfront  Dykes/Weirs between Interests/ Economic waterfront businesses business activities Revelstoke and ferry – Development  Navigation/Commercial • Boating access to technical and economic transport reservoir feasibility  Agriculture •Support fruit growers  Aesthetic impacts for  Maximize land for beach front agriculture commercial properties • Maximize wildlife  Guide Outfitter and viewing opportunities Angling Guide  Quantity and size of  Reduce barriers/ fish – angling increase opportunities tourism for economic  Fluctuating water diversification levels reduces  Power generation quantity of fish impacts fishing tourism  Subdivide land fronting Revelstoke Reservoir  Maximize power generation, eg Whatshan Project

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