The City of Surrey is the host for the first 2-day course on HOW to develop a Watershed Blueprint. An inter-governmental team is providing peer-based learning. Until October 14, the early bird registration fee is $200 / $250. After October 14, the fee increases to $245 / $295.
Titled ISMP Course Correction: Achieve More with Less, the 2-day course will showcase the tools and case study experience behind the paradigm-shift from “a report in four volumes” to a “blueprint to a new watershed”.
An ISMP, or Integrated Stormwater Management Plan, is a potentially powerful tool. It can influence other municipal processes for the better. It can generate the blueprint for truly integrated and coordinated action at a watershed scale.
CREATE A WATERSHED BLUEPRINT: "Local governments have many competing priorities. Everyone is challenged to do more with less, and get it done. The course will demonstrate the benefits of collaboration, alignment and integration: Establish the vision, set the target, and then implement," states Kim Stephens, Executive Director witht the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia.
"Participants will learn how they can draw on in-house resources, adapt the City of Surrey’s ISMP framework, apply the Bowker Creek approach (in the Capital Region) to watershed team-building, and embed the vision for a Watershed Landscape Restoration Strategy in land use planning processes."
TO REGISTER: Click on http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/event/ISMPCourseCorrection.asp
TO LEARN MORE: To access the ISMP Course Correction 'homepage' on the Water Bucket website and learn more about the program design, click here.
News Release #2011-46
October 6, 2011
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