Bighill Creek Preservation Society

Background The MAPL lands (320 acres) were approved for gravel extraction by Rocky View County. The Mine would remove up to 25 meters of gravel, leaving only one meter to protect the groundwater. Our science says that this mines and the others would harm the aquifer...

AWA Article - A Prairie Oasis A Plan for Bighill Creek - APRIL 13, 2022 Wild Lands Advocate article by: Vivian Pharis, Vice President of Bighill Creek Preservation Society When our little band of mostly retirees undertook a watershed plan for Bighill Creek in 2015,...

Alberta Environment and Parks had made provision for Statements of Concern to be submitted under the Water Act regarding the Mountain Ash LP gravel mine proposed very near to Big Hill Springs Provincial Park and its critical thermal spring. The deadline for...

Report prepared by: Wendell Koning, MSc., P.Biol. Limnologist/ Water Quality Specialist, and Ken Stevenson, PhD. February 7, 2022. Prepared for: the Bighill Creek Preservation Society (BCPS). 14 pgs. Water Quality Monitoring Activities, January 29-30, 2022...