SIPS Roundtable – Water Quality in the Inlet

Agenda Outline

Topics related to water quality Brentwood Bay, including:

• Tsartlip Marine Stewardship vessels of concern inventory
• SIPS sampling program
• Brentwood Bay Marine Community cleanups-in-the-bay
• Status of the Marine Pump Out boat program

Kyle Armstrong, Peninsula Streams and Shorelines:

• Update on storm water management, shoreline protection, recent fire spill pollution and smelt impacts

Casey Brant, Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria:

• Marine mud in Saanich Inlet; what does it tell us about water quality?

Bryant DeRoy, Sea Gardens Science Officer, Gulf Islands National Park

• Clam garden restoration and water quality monitoring programs

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