Click on the relevant North, Central, South area links below for more information on: the island watershed areas and creeks where we currently have/had FWC volunteers active, and where we are have "watershed notes" being developed (see Watershed Notes pages).  

NORTH AREA: WATERSHED NOTES & AREA IMAGES 

CENTRAL AREA: WATERSHED NOTES & AREA IMAGES

SOUTH AREA: WATERSHED NOTES & AREA IMAGES 

And ISLAND WATERSHEDS - MAP OVERVIEWS

Answers to our Facebook group's "Which Creek Is It" (WCIT) competition entries are posted in the relevant Watershed Notes area.

For some island watershed areas, with more local, focus "Local Detail" FWC volunteer work, we have more field information (and developing watershed notes) available.  Local detail project areas include:

• The North (WLBK; MFCK; 9178 - Fernwood)

• North 2017 (Madrona Creek)

• South/central Fulford Harbour (FLCK, SWCK, WSCK, SOCK, GGCK, LLCK, RUAL)

• South/central Xwaaqw'um (Burgoyne Bay, XWQW, 9075, +) 

• South 2112 (Cable Creek, Tuam) 

Which Creek Is It (WCIT) competition results reporting is available for some of the watersheds above, Cf. our active Salt Spring Island FreshWater Catalogue Watershed Stewardship Group Facebook group pages.

In each of these local detail project areas we are moving, slowly, towards (or already have in place!) island FWC stewardship communities!

If you have historical or other watershed insights for any of our "active" watershed areas, or further afield(!) please drop a note to the SSIFWC Project Lead.  If you would like to get involved in the FWC project for one of the island's watersheds please have a look at  Interested in being a FWC volunteer?

For more information on our field locations, field data charts and other relevant geographic and freshwater data use the SSI FWC webmap*, or browse a variety of local FWC field area watershed maps.

And for something uplifting, have a look at our (seasonal) SSI Waterfalls collection. 

*Note - the SSIFWC webmap (courtesy of the CRD, 2018) contains watershed names (where these are available), and/or a four digit code for un-named watersheds.  For example "9178" is the code for the watershed in the Fernwood area in the north of the island). These four digit codes are not currently displayed in our SSIFWC webmap - all these sites being attributed to "Direct - Natural".  

To determine the code for un-named island watersheds refer to the CRD SSI Watersheds map.

For some sites FWC common names have been assigned, to facilitate community familiarity with the various island watershed areas.

SSI Aquifer Sub-regions

Aquifer sub-regions capture practical surface (watersheds) drainage system areas, as well as the subsurface, aquifer “regions” underlying these watershed areas.  Together these sub-regions include the bedrock geology, fault systems (of clusters of our aquifers) and the major groundwater (watershed) divides for an area. 

For more on the aquifer subregions story please read our "Wells in Watersheds" webpage!

SSI Geology

And... underpinning all of the the island's freshwater (rainwater) storage systems, at surface (and driven by the island's shape) and in the subsurface (as groundwater, driven by island rock types, both surficial and bedrock) is the Geology of Salt Spring Island, elegantly captured in a map by Greenwood and Mihalynuk (2009).