Errors, Half truths and Puffery
It has been a disappointing characteristic of the process over the last 4 years that all the presentations by the CRD to the public have contained misrepresentations, both direct and by omission. In this environmental presentation we have seen the exaggeration of the number of "at risk" species in the park, and the failure to take climate change and sea level rise into account.
Following is a collection of others:
High salinity in the Tsawout lands
In the Coast Processes section the CRD showed tables indicating high salt water levels in the Tsawout lands and northern part of the Park.
The CRD did not disclose however that the flapper gate on the Tsawout drainage ditch has been malfunctioning for 20 years or so, allowing salt water to travel up the Tsawout ditch.
It has been a disappointing characteristic of the process over the last 4 years that all the presentations by the CRD to the public have contained misrepresentations, both direct and by omission. In this environmental presentation we have seen the exaggeration of the number of "at risk" species in the park, and the failure to take climate change and sea level rise into account.
Following is a collection of others:
High salinity in the Tsawout lands
In the Coast Processes section the CRD showed tables indicating high salt water levels in the Tsawout lands and northern part of the Park.
The CRD did not disclose however that the flapper gate on the Tsawout drainage ditch has been malfunctioning for 20 years or so, allowing salt water to travel up the Tsawout ditch.
This aerial photo shows the sea water in the Tsawout ditch system which is the main reason why the land would show high saline levels.
Drain Ditches [sic]
In 2011 CRD staff had intended to fill in the mosquito drainage ditches and breach the sea wall
Drain Ditches [sic]
In 2011 CRD staff had intended to fill in the mosquito drainage ditches and breach the sea wall