Road building puts water quality at risk in some B.C. communities

Logging road and bridge construction is putting drinking water quality at risk in some community watersheds, according to a special investigation by British Columbia’s Forest Practices Board.

Globe and Mail

But logging itself – the cutting of trees – is being done in a way that doesn’t have significant impact on drinking water quality, said the report released Tuesday. “When it comes to logging, we’re doing a good job – but we’ve got to pay more attention to our roads and bridges,” Tim Ryan, chair of the Forest Practices Board, said in an interview.

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