Save Shannon Creek

At 4 Mile along the North Shore of Kootenay lake outside of Nelson BC. Over 50 acres of steep terrain above Taylor Drive, Kettleson Road and Annable Road is for sale.

As a private sale, the parcel can be logged all along Shannon Creek, affecting the water that our communities depend on.

Please add your name to the mailing list below to stay up to date on how this sale is critically affecting Shannon Creek water users.

Meeting Notes and Updates

Water License Information

We looked up the water licence. the upper parcel has no water licence, the lower parcel has a water license assigned to Anderson Creek Timber Co.; details: licence #: F016887, priority date: Nov 26th, 1900, use: domestic, for 250 gallons/day, source is Crystal Creek. So the current licence would have to be changed for development and does not currently draw from Shannon creek. see attached and below.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada property (previously darkwoods) has a water licence (#C111953) of 120,000 gal/year for irrigation use and 500 gal/day for domestic use. souce Shannon Creek.

Details About The Shannon Creek Parcels

For anyone interested, here is a link to a report done back in 2002 when Kalesnikoff was looking at logging Shannon Creek and Crystal springs area.

Download the PDF

Two parcels are currently up for sale. The lower one running from the top of Taylor Drive to the bottom of Annable Road is roughly 10 acres. It contains many popular trails used by the community.

The second parcel is around 43 acres and is on the extremely steep mountainside and crosses Shannon Creek in the upper corner.

For questions, comments, or to send us information please email us at: Taylor.kettleson@gmail.com