FISH ACCESS
WAGG CREEK
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Fish can access Wagg Creek from its confluence at Mosquito Creek up to Jones Avenue. A culvert blocks further passage.
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The upper reaches of Wagg Creek have not been accessible to salmon for several decades.
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Although the creek is open from Jones to Wagg Park to Chesterfield, there are culverts at every street crossing.
Upstream of Chesterfield, there is a long underground culvert to Queens.
Upstream of Queens, Wagg Creek is above ground for about 8 blocks.
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The upper watershed is urbanized. When the area was first developed, some headwaters were rechanneled into the Hastings Creek system.
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A portion of the stream was free-flowing above ground between Chesterfield and West 23rd Street until 1998, when that city block was redeveloped.
- Wagg Park Pond ---- main stream
City of North Vancouver
1985
A small slot fish ladder was installed at the downstream end of the pond.
The pond could support fish, if water quality problems could be corrected. The problems are caused primarily by contaminated run-off from streets and properties, flowing into the creek through storm sewers.
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