Professor emeritus Jack Little (no affiliation with WPS) explores the history of the Channel Ridge development from a socio-environmental lens in a BC Studies article.

“What does this environmental scar reveals about recent attitudes towards the natural environment and about the relationship between property developers and the wants and needs of the broader community?”

(WPS is currently in a legal dispute with the developers regarding the St. Mary Lake Watershed Preserve).

In a study of phosphorus levels in St Mary Lake, engineer Donald O. Hodgins, finds that “on-site sewage treatment systems are working efficiently, with phosphorus retention factors immediately under the drain fields exceeding 95% for the slightly acidic soils around St. Mary Lake.”