GW Solutions was commissioned in 2011 by the BC Comptroller, Water Allocation and Utility Regulation Section, to assess the Woodley Range Water Works; a private water utility located on a rocky hill, south of Nanaimo Airport, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Six (6) bedrock wells were drilled in the early 1990s and a water system was designed and rated in 1993 through 1996 to supply a residential subdivision. In 2009 and 2010, Woodley Range experienced a lack of water in the mid-summer, thus requiring trucking in of water. The 2011 spring study by GW Solutions revealed that little was known about the long-term response of the aquifer to pumping, mostly under summer conditions when the