A summary of the land area and the inventoried area of the Regional District of Nanaimo is shown in Table 2. The inventoried area includes parcels that are in and partially in the ALR.
The primary agricultural use of the ARL area is shown in Table 3 where only 1,366 parcels currently have active agriculture.
Refer to the Agricultural Land Use Inventory reports for details.
The Agriculture Water Demand Model also reports out on groundwater aquifers. Figure 8 provides a schematic of the higher yielding aquifer areas in RDN.
Figure 8 – Higher Productive Groundwater Aquifers in RDN