Your Shuswap Resources

• Shuswap Watershed Council
• Water Quality Resources
• Safe Recreation Resources
• Shuswap Watershed Map
• SWC Blog

Here are some helpful resources on water quality and recreational safety in the Shuswap, developed through the work of the Shuswap Watershed Council. Also find helpful water quality materials from the former Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP) during its three-year (2011-2014) pilot project.

Shuswap Watershed Council

Note: Find SWC meeting agendas and summaries and other resources in About SWC.

Program Documents

• Annual Highlights Report 2020-2021
• Annual Highlights Report 2019-2020
• Annual Highlights Report 2018-2019
• Annual Highlights Report 2017-2018
• Annual Highlights Report 2016-2017
• What is SWC? (Overview)
• SWC Media Release: Shuswap Watershed Council Set to Implement Programs (December 2015)
• Water Quality Program and Recreational Safety Education Program for the Shuswap Watershed (2016-2020)
  
• SWC Statement of Principles (2015)

2021-2026 Strategic Plan

• Shuswap Watershed Council 2021-2026 Strategic Plan

Water Quality Resources

Brochure

• Water Protection Initiative

Reports

SWC Water Quality Reports

• Understanding Nutrients and Water Quality in the Shuswap River and Salmon River
• Water Quality Report for 2019
• Water Quality Report for 2018
• Water Quality Report for 2017
• Water Quality Report for 2016

Nutrient Management Report

• Agricultural Nutrient Management in the Shuswap Watershed for Maintaining and Improving Water Quality: Literature Review and Nutrient Management Strategies (McDougall, 2014)

SLIPP Water Quality Summaries

• Summary: 2011-2013 Water Quality Monitoring Results for Shuswap and Mara Lakes (Consolidated Update)
• Summary: 2011-2012 Water Quality Monitoring Results for Shuswap and Mara Lakes

These are the technical reports on water quality monitoring and sources of nutrients. For summaries, see above.

• 2013 SLIPP Water Quality Report: Shuswap, Little Shuswap and Mara Lakes
• 2012 SLIPP Water Quality Report: Shuswap, Little Shuswap and Mara Lakes
• 2011 SLIPP Water Quality Report: Shuswap, Little Shuswap and Mara Lakes
• SLIPP Water Quality Report: Sources of Nutrients
  

Safe Recreation Resources

Brochure

• 7 Tips for Having Fun and Staying Safe in the Shuswap

Shuswap Watershed Map

The Shuswap watershed is much more than the lake: it is all the land and bodies of water that drain to the outlet of Little Shuswap Lake. It includes forests, fields, hillsides, wetlands, meadows, creeks, rivers and lakes from the Okanagan Highlands in the south, to the Monashee mountains in the north and east, to the Shuswap Highlands in the northwest.

This Shuswap Watershed map shows the entire Shuswap watershed, divided into seven major sub-basins coded by colour. The map also illustrates the South Thompson River basin, immediately downstream of Little Shuswap Lake.

The Shuswap watershed forms part of the larger Thompson and Fraser watersheds.

SWC Blog

• Monitoring Shuswap Lake for invasive mussels – Part 1

• Monitoring Shuswap Lake for invasive mussels – Part 2

• The Sunny-Day Lives of Shuswap Water Monitors