Summary

Godman
Godman Creek Watershed
Area: 1.8 km2
Length: 4.8 km
Orientation: Northeast-southwest to north-south
Elevation range: 0 - 800 m
Watershed code: 900-073200
Godman

Characteristics
  • Tenth largest watershed in West Vancouver
  • Originates on the southwest edge of Hollyburn Ridge. Three branches flow through undeveloped forested land above the Upper Levels highway. The main centre branch and the east branch converge above the highway, the confluence of the main and west branches is below the highway in Westridge Park. The creek flows past Westridge Avenue, Viewridge Place, Bayridge Avenue, Sharon Place and Sharon Park, Rose Crescent and Marine Drive before entering Burrard Inlet west of Sandy Cove Park.


    • Watershed Use
  • Residential
  • Park: Sandy Cove Park, Sharon Park, Westridge Park
  • Fish: cutthroat trout, possibility of chum and coho spawning between mouth and Marine Drive


    • Concerns
  • Obstructions or barriers to migrating fish at culverts under Marine Drive, the BCR railway, at least 7 other roads and driveways, Upper Levels highway
  • Obstructions or barriers to migrating fish and loss of habitat due to channelization of creek through urban area
  • Water quality altered through proximity to urban development and storm drain discharge and possible sewer line breakages
  • Future development in upper watershed and associated problems, including an increase in imperviousness, the loss of wetlands and tributaries, the construction of storm drain network resulting in altered water quality and quantity, encroachment into riparian zones, tributary channelization or loss, bank alteration and increased erosion into the creek


    • Watershed Projects
  • Unfed coho fry released 2000, 2001 and 2002
  • Biophysical survey 1980 [FISS]


    • Prepared by Elizabeth Hardy, March 2003

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