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Nasa to Investigate Georgian Bay Water Levels & Wetlands AUTUMN 2014 AUTUMN VOL 5, ISSUE 3 Protecting your water. WATER LEVELS, WATER QUALITY, ECOSYSTEMS AND INVASIVE SPECIES NA SA TO INVESTIGATE GEORGIAN BAY WATER LEVELS & WETLANDS P1 age 1 INSIDE: THREE FAMILIES’ A MESSAGE AN ECONOMIC IMPACT 100 YEAR CELEBRATION TO GEORGIAN BaYERS REPORT OF FUTURE LOW ON THE BAY FROM THE PREMIER! WATER LEVELS IN THE AREA PAGE 5 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 Georgian Bay Forever is a proud member of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Georgian Bay Forever is a community response to the growing need for major research and education projects to sustain the Georgian Bay aquatic ecosystem and the quality of life its communities and visitors enjoy. THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS We help monitor the Bay’s well being, throughout the seasons, year after year. ARE GENEROUS PATRONS We fund the research needed to protect the environmental health of Georgian Bay and the surrounding bodies of water. Using our research findings, we inform and educate the OF GEORGIAN BAY FOREVER general public and governments about any threats to environmental health and propose possible solutions. Through conferences, workshops and seminars we David and Shelagh Blenkarn are educating the Georgian Bay community. By teaming Philip Deck and Kimberley Bozak up with reputable institutions we enhance the credibility of our research and we strengthen our ability to protect Brian and Janey Chapman what’s at stake. Charles and Rita Field-Marsham Georgian Bay Forever, formerly the GBA Foundation, is a registered Canadian charity (#89531 1066 RR0001). Mary Elizabeth Flynn We work with the Great Lakes Basin Conservancy in the United States, as well as other stakeholder groups Ruth and Doug Grant all around the Great Lakes. Jacquie and Mike Green Deeply rooted and broadly drawn, Georgian Bay Forever is Peter Hatcher and Family steered by lifelong devotees of the Bay. We are committed advocates, educators, environmentalists, realists, idealists, Robert Hay and Family and of course, residents. Donald Guloien and Irene Boychuk DIRECTORS John Honderich Derek Bowen Michael Hensel Janet Burt Rod Jones The Geoff Hyland Family Adam Chamberlain Gail Krantzberg Terry Clark Hugh McLelland Janet Turnbull-Irving and John Irving Brenda Drinkwalter, Chair Anne Randell Jennifer Ferguson Peter Singer Eric Jackman Leslie Hayes Eriwn Stuart Rod and Joanne Jones Executive Director Wil and Judith Matthews David Sweetnam Michael McCain OUR CONTACT DETAILS PO Box 163 Jim Meekison Caledon, ON L7E 5T2 Frank and Patricia Mills tel: 905-880-4945 Anthony Munk and Amie Rocket-Munk You can reach David Sweetnam, our Executive Director, at [email protected] Robert and Robin Ogilvie or at (905) 880 4945 ext 1. Jeffrey Orr and Suzanne Legge U.S. citizens wishing to make a donation Penny and John Pepperell to support our work can do so by giving to: Great Lakes Basin Conservancy Chris Pfaff PO Box 504, Gates Mills OH 44040-0504, USA David Roffey (Please add a note saying: “For Georgian Bay Forever”) William and Meredith Saunderson This newsletter is just a snapshot of our work. For the most Larry Smith up-to-date information on our projects, longer versions of newsletter articles and on breaking news about Georgian Peter and Cathie Singer Bay, please become a regular visitor to our website and Facebook page. Rob and Val Thompson GeorgianBayForever.org Cameron Wardlaw Design by Key Gordon (keygordon.com) Editor: David Sweetnam & Carole White asdlkfasdlfkaj AUTUMN 2014 Follow us on CHAIR’S MESSAGE LOOKING FORWARD TO A YEAR By Brenda OF PROTECTING OUR WATER Drinkwalter o much has happened since last newsletter—some great, some Conversations across the nation and around the world shifted to the need not so great! The great—a much longed for rise in water levels, for infrastructure changes, not when disaster strikes, but years ahead of water sharing from Lake Superior and cooler temperatures impact- time to avert worst case disasters—the kind of thinking that Georgian Bay Sing evaporation. The not so good—worrisome Great Lakes algal blooms Forever and a host of others have been calling for to protect our water. and several big storms delivering both above average precipitation and at times, sewage spills into the Great Lakes. The warnings about climate What’s next on our agenda? Our focus in the coming year and beyond will change impacts, from business, governments and NGOs intensified be on adaptation strategies for protecting our water—with both structural bringing with them the beginnings of a noticeable shift in the US Great and non-structural measures. Lakes policy landscape. We will continue to work on informing the process of selecting the best Of significant importance is the new White House plan for the Great climate resilient, flexible structures and locations to manage water levels Lakes, which will require that all Great Lakes infrastructure projects —discussions are underway about forming a CGLR/GBF lead consortium after 2017 be climate resilient. And in a bid to protect the Great Lakes of cross border interests to fund some of the pre-engineering work Navigation System, the new Water Resources Reform and Development required if it would accelerate the process. Act calls for contemporary materials and construction techniques and an integrated approach to managing the system. An approach and solution Georgian Bay Forever’s Executive Director, David Sweetnam, and Wendy that Georgian Bay has always supported! Leger of Environment Canada were chosen to be on the Steering Committee of a University of Michigan study of non-structural adaptation Governments would do well to revisit the dated IJC Advice to incorporate measures—the only two Canadians. GBF can contribute our early research climate resilience, in particular, into the scope of the engineering study of on causation of Georgian Bay algal blooms, on the innovative genetic structural options. bar coding tool to measure changes in biodiversity, the work that we are beginning with NASA on wetlands and the link to water levels—these The Wynne government in Ontario appointed Canada’s first Minister of the projects and more will be part of our adaptation research that will inform Environment and Climate Change—Premier Wynne shares her thoughts on policy in the years ahead. protecting the Great Lakes in her guest article. Lastly, we are very pleased to welcome new Board Members, Jennifer And on June 26, the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) released Low Ferguson (Collingwood), former VP Communications at Toronto Rehab Water Blues, the Economic Impact of Declining Great Lakes Water Levels, who will Chair our Communications Committee, and our second US with an almost $20B estimate of costs if we fail to mitigate for plausible Board member, Terry Clarke (Pointe Au Baril), a lawyer who has previously lower Great Lakes water levels. Mark Fisher, CGLR’s CEO reports on the held positions as Chair of the Board of both the Pointe Au Baril Islanders study and what’s next, in his article. Association and the Ojibway Club. In August of 2014, close to 500,000 people on the Great Lakes lost access Many thanks for your ongoing support of Georgian Bay Forever’s work to to their drinking water as a result of a climate-linked toxic algal bloom. protect the Bay for our kids’ kids’ kids! GEORGIANBAYFOREVER.ORG | autuMN 2014 PAGE 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT IMPROVEMENTS ARE ON THE HORIZON THANKS TO RESEARCH By David Sweetnam AND STUDIES ike CSI–Georgian Bay, Georgian Bay And as I write this article today, the United As a follow-up to our 2012 bacteriological Forever is continually investigating Nations has announced that for the first time testing in Church Bay at Honey Harbour, GBF state-of-the-art technologies to help since the alarm was raised the ozone layer is deployed new state-of-the-art scientific tools Lprotect our water. Genetic tools like DNA finally improving: 20 years later. using DNA amplification techniques and specific barcoding to catalogue species biodiversity genetic markers to identify the animal source for and identify organisms and food webs have Today we have our deniers and naysayers on the bacteria in the environment. The thresholds been successfully tested; studies of blue-green climate change front, but the science will prevail. of detection for this testing are at or below the algae bloom biochemistry published; satellite GBF has taken a leadership role with environmen- levels set out by the province for water quality imagery used to identify wetlands plant tal issues like water levels because climate impacts monitoring. communities; and non-chemical methods of on our aquatic ecosystems and economies require eradicating phragmites through community long term leadership and visionary thinking. The presence of bacteria in the water depends education and involvement have been success- upon a variety of factors including having a fully demonstrated. These changes can also have significant impacts contamination source, the quantity of contami- on our drinking water supplies as seen this past nated discharge, circulation of the receiving Back in the early 1990s during my time edu- summer when almost half a million people lost water, UV exposure of the bacteria, predation by cating the public on the cancerous effects of their tap water due to toxins from blue-green non-pathogenic organisms and other factors. ultraviolet (UV) radiation and the ozone hole, algae blooms in Toledo. The samples tested showed no sign of human, we had our fair share of naysayers and deniers bird or dog contamination–the three sources refusing to admit the existence of human GBF funded studies on Georgian Bay blue-green tested for. induced chemical changes in the upper algae blooms have been published by York atmosphere. University with Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Fortunately, as with all good science, the facts won out and the business of reducing ozone GBF has also reviewed and overhauled the Town- depleting gasses began in earnest.
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