About QWSS
About the Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society (QWSS)
The Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society (QWSS) — also known as “Quamichan Stewards” — is a registered charity whose mission is to encourage and support activities to promote the watershed health and water quality of Quamichan Lake. QWSS was formed as a sub-committee of the Cowichan Land Trust in the spring of 2006 to respond to the continuously declining health of Quamichan Lake. The Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society is a registered Charity (BN 82868 0892 RR0001).
Quamichan Lake Watershed
Quamichan is the largest lake in North Cowichan
The drainage basin is approximately 17.33 square km
There are approximately 15 surface inlets into Quamichan Lake
One major outlet located at Quamichan Creek discharges into Cowichan River 1.6 km south of the lake
Surface area 773 acres (312 hectors)
The length is 3.1 km and width 1.2 km
The Lake Volume estimate: 13,770,000,000 liters
Estimated turnover: once per year
Quamichan Lake 1946
Current Board Members
Jim Cosh
Per Dahlstrom
David Groves
Bruce Holms
Sarah Nelles
Society Act
The name of the society is The Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society
The purposes of the society are:
To promote, conserve, protect and enhance the quality of the human and natural environment(s) of Quamichan Watershed;
To raise awareness of Quamichan Watershed as an important asset within the North Cowichan and Vancouver lsland Communities;
To promote the sustainability of the Quamichan Watershed for the benefit of current and future generations;
To raise money, acquire funds and other assistance, and to own, acquire, and take by purchase, donations, devise, or otherwise, land or personal property and expend, gell, exchange, mortgage, lease, let, improve, or develop same the purposes of the society;
To do everything incidental and necessary to promote and attain the foregoing purposes and periodically to reassess these purposes. Accordingly, the purposes are alterable in accordance with the Society Act.
3. The operations of the Society are to be carried out chiefly in the Cowichan Valley, in the Province of British Columbia. This provision is altenable in accordance with the Society Act.
4. On the winding up or dissolution of this society, funds or assets remaining after all debt has been paid shall be transferred to a charitable institution with purposes similar to those of this society, or, if this cannot be done, to another charitable institution recognized by the Canada Revenue Agency as qualified under the provisions of the lncome Tax Act of Canada. This provision is unattainable in accordance with the Society Act.
5. The purpose of the society shall be carried out without purpose of gain for its members, and any profits or other accretions of the society shall be used by promoting its purposes. This provision is unalterable in accordance with the Society Act.
