Current Projects in the Elbow Watershed

• Water Management Plan


• Field Study Program
  The Field Study Program is a curriculum-linked event offered currently to Grade 8 and 9 classes and run by Alberta Community Development with support from the Elbow River Watershed Partnership and The Friends of Kananaskis Country.

  The program includes a resource manual and training for teachers and a full-day field trip to the Elbow River. Students travel by bus to the headwaters of the Elbow River and make observations about land use and measure water quality. The bus takes them downstream to other locations, eventually back to Calgary, where they observe the increase in land use and again measure the river water for turbidity, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature. They learn about the physical, chemical and social characterics of the Elbow River watershed and the connection between land use and water quality.

  Contact Alberta Community Development Parks and Protected Areas in Canmore for registration information at (403)678-5500 Ext. 284 (For toll free call the Alberta RITE Line first at 310-0000.)

• Groundwater Education


• Communications Strategy - Development and Implementation


• Bragg Creek Community Monitoring Program
  Since 2005, community volunteers have measured water quality and made site observations at six locations along Bragg Creek during the spring and summer.


• Glencoe Golf and Country Club
  Operates its own water treatment facility to supply treated drinking water to its clubhouse and to nearby residents. The club also employs a fulltime environmental coordinator to fulfill proactive environmental project goals including, for example, retrofitting the irrigation system to use less water, monitoring runoff from their site into the adjacent Elbow River and acting upon the results. For more information see Glencoe Golf & Country Club website.