Program Documents

This Strategic Plan is a guide for the Trail Area Health & Environment Program (THEP) from 2022 to 2027. THEP supports community health and wellbeing in an area influenced by smelter air emissions for over 125 years. Areas of focus include air, health, soil, built environments, community connection, and understanding the bigger picture.

This abridgement is a more concise version of the Trail Area Health & Environment Program (THEP) document, highlighting information of greatest interest to the general public. Readers who prefer greater detail or who want to review the references and bibliography can click on the Trail Area Health & Environment Program document (2014).

This document describes the five comprehensive programs of the Trail Area Health & Environment Program, during and following extensive public consultation in 2010. The components are: Air Quality; Family Health; Home and Garden; Property Development; Parks and Wildlands. The Program’s vision, mission, values, goals, and processes for governance, delivery, evaluation, and community engagement are described.

Learn how the first few years of the transition from Trail Community Lead Task Force (TCLTF) to Trail Area Health & Environment Committee (THEC) went, as the THEC, Teck, Interior Health and City of Trail implemented the 2001 recommendations of the TCLTF.

This report is an excellent resource for understanding the history of study and action on lead and other smelter-related metals in Trail, and the basis for the long-term recommendations that fostered the development of what is currently the Trail Area Health & Environment Program.