Campus context

UBC water systems are already an atlas.

AquaWorks learns from UBC's stormwater planning and green rainwater infrastructure research. These documents provide context for student observation; they are not AquaWorks deliverables.

Integrated stormwater context

UBC's 2017 Integrated Stormwater Management Plan frames campus water as a full rainwater cycle: reducing runoff, mitigating off-campus impacts, and maintaining water quality at campus boundaries.

The plan discusses renewed monitoring using flow, temperature, pH, turbidity, and conductivity.

Four campus catchments

north

North

Outfalls near the Museum of Anthropology and spiral drain context.

west

West

Includes Botanical Garden Creek and connected west-side drainage.

sixteenth

16th Avenue

A catchment with fewer mapped GRI assets in the ENVR 400 report.

south

South

Flows toward receiving environments through downstream systems.

Green rainwater infrastructure as learning context

A separate 2025 ENVR 400 project mapped 33 green rainwater infrastructure assets across UBC Vancouver. AquaWorks uses this as campus context for learning about water, infrastructure, and data communication.

3333 mapped GRI assetsENVR 400 GRI Mapping and Asset Management, 2025

Attribution matters

The ISMP and ENVR 400 GRI report are institutional and course-project references. AquaWorks does not claim to operate UBC's monitoring program or to have produced the ENVR 400 GRI map.