THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF THE LOWER FRASER

What comes to your mind when you think of the Lower Fraser? Muddy water? Second largest salmon run in the
world? Sewers discharging domestic and industrial wastes of Greater Vancouver? Port for world-wide trade? Floods?
Major resting place for birds on the Pacific Flyway? Explorers and developers route to the interior? Sink for pollutants
washed from the air and land by prodigious rains? Jobs in the fish and forest products industries? Probably many of
these characteristics come to mind, and at the same time, a question - Are we polluting this river so badly that our
health, the ecosystem and livelihoods dependent on the Fraser are threatened?

The Westwater Research Centre at The University of British Columbia is now completing a three year study of this
question and will report its findings in a series ot seven illustrated lectures beginning January 8. They will be held in
the Auditorium of the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium and are open to the public with no charge for admission. The
lectures will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion with Westwater

staff.

January 8 Control of Pollution in the Lower February 26 Biology of the Lower Fraser and
Fraser: The Problem in Perspective. Ecologic Effects of Pollution. Tom
Irving Fox, Director, Westwater Northcote, Professor (Aquatic Biology)
Research Centre. Faculty of Forestry, Institute of Animal

Resource Ecology and Westwater
Research Centre.

January 15 The Administration of Pollution Control
Activities: How Decisions are Made.

Mark Sproule-Jones, Associate March 11 Technologies for Controlling Pollution
Professor Political Science, University of the Lower Fraser and

of Victoria. Ken Peterson, Research Implementation Policies. Anthony
Associate, Westwater Research Centre. Dorcey, Assistant Director, Westwater

Research Centre.

January 29‘ The Quality of Water in the Lower

Fraser and Sources of Pollution. Ken March 25 Strengthening Water Quality

Hall, Assistant Director, Westwater Management in the Lower Fraser:
Research Centre and Assistant Research, Policies, and Administration.
Professor of Civil Engineering, U.B.C. Panel: Irving Fox, Chairman, Anthony

Dorcey, Ken Hall, Ken Peterson, Mark
Sproule-Jones and John Wiens.

February 12 The Quality of Water in Tributaries of ..
_ the Lower Fraser and Sources of
Pollution. Ken Hall and John Wiens,
Assistant Professor of Soil Science and
Westwater Research Centre, U.B.C.

 

Further information can be obtained from the Westwater Research Centre, telephone in Vancouver, 228-4956.

BP 75-1250