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A project to realign Beach Creek & reestablish fish passage.
 This
project was conducted in co-operation with Environment Canada, the Town of Qualicum
Beach, the Urban Salmon Habitat Program and Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers.
Beach Creek has long since been identified as a poor creek outlet
with a culvert running beneath a large resort hotel situated along the Inland
Island Highway. The Town of Qualicum Beach creatively designed an alternative
solution by proposing to relocate the culvert around the hotel and improve the
creek outlet by implementing the use of open fish resting ponds rather than manholes.
Further, a mini estuary was developed
in order to go through the existing seawall. The seawall was ‘bridged’
across the estuary in order to enable the public the opportunity
to view salmon in their upstream migration. The pipe structure is
a combination of circular and box culvert utilizing a baffle system
that accommodates fish passage.
 This
project was made possible with the assistance of the Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers
Society who were successful in obtaining grant monies which enabled the project
to proceed. Further the Streamkeepers Society also provided native plants which
were used to complete the project.
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