Introduction to the Terrace Area Terrace, as the name suggests, is built on a series of natural terraces of land along the Skeena River . The city rises out of the Skeena River at approximately 60 metres above sea level. Terrace serves as a service, trade, and forest products centre.
Point sources are typically industrial discharges of waste gases and aerosols to the atmosphere.
Area sources are typically spatial integrations of many similar, small point sources, such as automobiles or wood burning stoves. BC Environment regulates many industrial point sources using a permitting system, as required by the Waste Management Act . Permitted Emissions Permitted emissions from Terrace area point sources are depicted in the tables below. The first table depicts the permitted amount of atmospheric contaminant emissions expressed in tonnes per year. The second table expresses these emissions as frequencies relative to the total emitted for each individual atmospheric contaminant.