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The Soft Path to Saving Water (PDF, 4.8 Fall 2011 Watershed Report Environmental news for the residents of the Grand River watershed • Distribution 210,000 copies forfor Goals the Grand WhatWhat does the futurefuture hold forfor the GrandGrandand River?River? hat’shat’s tthehe qquestionuestion aatt tthehe hhearteart ooff a !e WWaWaterater MManagementanagement PPlanlan wwillill ooutlineutline tthehe acactionstions three-yearthree-year pprojectroject ttoo dedevelopvelop a nnewew WWaWaterater waterwater mmanagementanagement aagenciesgencies wwillill nneedeed ttoo ttakeakkee ttoo ManagementManagement PPlanlan ffoforor tthehe GGrandrand RRiveriver addressaddress tthosehose iissuesssues aandnd oothers.thers. !e pplanlan iiss sscheduledcheduled Twatershed.watershed. toto bbee cocompletedmpleted bbyy tthehe sspringpring ooff 2013 aandnd iiss bbeingeing developeddeveloped bbyy tthehe GRGRCA,CA, mmunicipalities,unicipalities, pprovincialrovincial !e wawatershedtershed iiss a bbigig aandnd bbusyusy pplace.lace. 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WWillill cclimatelimate cchangehange mmakeakkee "ooodingoding wworse?orse? 20112011 20122012 20132013 Following the Hunting for Building Soft Path buried water a legacy A new approach to water A team of scientists has Don and Janet Vallery conservation could help been exploring an under- have spent years working communities meet their ground world in the to restore natural areas future needs. search for a buried river near their property on valley. Lake Belwood Page 6 Page 8 Page 12 The GRCA water gauge. Fences along How To Reach Us the sides of creeks stopped cows from entering the Joe Farwell Chief Administrative Officer A Message Keith Murch Assistant CAO, water. Farmers had built Secretary Treasurer From the Chair new manure storage. The Rural Water Quality By Mail: GRCA Shunpiking: Shunning turnpikes, touring back 400 Clyde Road, Box 729 roads. Program supplied the Cambridge, Ontario arren Stauch, a member of the GRCA funds. N1R 5W6 board, shunpikes tourists along the Jane Mitchell The headwaters are By Phone: 519-621-2761 Chair sometimes said to be locat- Direct Line: 519-621-2763 + ext. best of the Grand River. He took board Salter, Stauch and Mitchell Toll Free: 1-866-900-4722 W ed at Luther Marsh. The member Pat Salter and me on a hunt for the By Fax: 519-621-4844 headwaters of the Grand. Luther Dam helps control flooding. The marsh, like all wetlands, cleans Website: www.grandriver.ca water. Luther Marsh is known for its heronry and large numbers of E-mail general inquiries: We started just outside West Montrose with a view possibly painted [email protected] by Homer Watson. Cattle rested under a tree in a summer green field. migrating waterfowl. The marsh also contains grasslands to preserve The river meandered to the covered bridge in the distance. birds like the bobolink. Common 40 years ago, they are now rare. Outside business hours: Travelling along the back roads, we crossed historic iron and bow- The headwaters are actually near Shrigley. The source of a river is 519-621-2761 and leave message often imagined as a bubbling spring. The Grand starts in a wetland. (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, string bridges, large and small. An osprey with a large fish in its mouth excluding holidays) flew over us. Unfortunately, the rural infrastructure deficit was evident. We returned along byways, though GRCA owned farmland that was Old concrete bridge rails missed chunks and were eroded to iron bars. originally purchased for a never-built West Montrose dam. A successful River Information Line: Many examples of water management popped up. We came across a shunpiking tour. 519-621-2763 ext. 2519 Planning and Permits: 519-621-2763 ext. 2230 River Conservation Authority. Conservation Areas: Other stories examine some of the issues being addressed by the Head office 519-621-2763 ext. 2250 A Message study. The cover story outlines water objectives for the Grand River Belwood Lake (Fergus) 519-843-2979 Brant (Brantford) 519-752-2040 From the CAO system, which includes streams and rivers feeding into the Grand, as Byng Island (Dunnville) 905-774-5755 well as the watershed’s groundwater resources. Conestogo Lake (Drayton) 519-638-2873 n this issue of The Grand, we turn our atten- Managing demand for water is highlighted in a story about the Soft Elora Gorge (Elora) 519-846-9742 tion to the work being done to develop an Path Approach. Guelph Lake (Guelph) 519-824-5061 Laurel Creek (Waterloo) 519-884-6620 updated Water Management Plan for the Another story explains the work being done to improve the opera- I Joe Farwell Luther Marsh (Grand Valley)519-928-2832 Grand River watershed. This project has its roots tion of sewage treatment plants to reduce their impact on the river sys- Pinehurst Lake (Paris) 519-442-4721 in a 1982 study that examined the watershed and Chief Administrative tem. The story on wastewater optimization also outlines how the pro- Rockwood (Rockwood) 519-856-9543 made recommendations related to water quality, Officer gram can reduce operating costs. Shade’s Mills (Cambridge) 519-621-3697 water quantity and flooding – issues that are still A story on the Dundas Buried Bedrock Valley study highlights the Reserve a campsite: important today. results of a three-year project to examine an ancient buried river valley, By phone 1-877-558-GRCA (4722) The updated study will address these issues within the context of which might hold promise for future water supply. Online www.grandriver.ca 21st century challenges such as climate change and population growth. The Grand River watershed supports a complex, living ecosystem. To Nature Centres: The goals of the plan are to ensure sustainable water supply for water- develop a plan for managing the water within our watershed is a signif- Apps’ Mill (Brantford) 519-752-0655 shed communities and ecosystems, to reduce potential flood damages, icant challenge, and it requires cooperation and participation from a Guelph Lake 519-836-7860 and to improve water quality to maintain river health. The project is number of partners. As you read The Grand, I hope you gain a sense of Laurel Creek (Waterloo) 519-885-1368 led by a steering committee of representatives from watershed munici- that shared responsibility, and some insight into some of the projects Shade’s Mills (Cambridge) 519-623-5573 Taquanyah (Cayuga) 905-768-3288 palities, First Nations, provincial and federal ministries and the Grand that are under way. Grand River Conservation Foundation Phone: 519-621-2763 ext. 2272 The municipality where you live appoints 1-877-29-GRAND one or more representatives to the GRCA E-mail: [email protected] Who speaks for you? board to oversee the budget and activities The GRAND is published twice a year of the conservation authority. by the GRCA, and distributed in news- papers to households in the Grand River watershed. Additional copies Townships of Amaranth, East Regional Municipality of City of Guelph: County of Oxford (Blandford- available. Garafraxa, East Luther Grand Waterloo (Cambridge, Bob Bell, Maggie Laidlaw Blenheim, East Zorra-Tavistock, Letters and comments to: Valley, Melancthon, Southgate: Kitchener, North Dumfries, Town of North Perth, Township Norwich): Bruce Banbury Dave Schultz, GRCA Tom Nevills Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot and 400 Clyde Road, Box 729 of Perth East: George Wicke City of Brantford: Cambridge, Ontario, N1R 5W6 Woolwich): Les Armstrong, Todd Townships of Mapleton and Regional Municipality of Halton Robert Hillier, Vic Prendergast (519) 621-2763, Ext. 2273 Wellington North: Pat Salter Cowan, Jan d’Ailly (GRCA 2nd (GRCA 1st vice-chair) [email protected] vice-chair), Rob Deutschmann, (Halton Hills and Milton): Township of Centre Wellington: Jean Haalboom, Ross Kelterborn, Barry Lee County of Brant: Joanne Ross-Zuj Geoff Lorentz, Claudette Millar, City of Hamilton: Brian Coleman, Steve Schmitt Town of Erin, Townships of Jane Mitchell (GRCA chair), Jeanette Jamieson Haldimand and Norfolk Guelph/Eramosa and Puslinch: Warren Stauch Counties: Lorne Boyko, John Brennan Fred Morison Page 2 FALL 2011 • Watershed Report WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN Goals for the Grand Continued from Page 1 The Water Management Plan plans to recognize the role of the will include a set of targets and river in community life. the steps needed to meet those “People have been asked many targets. For example, it will times in the past several years include targets for the oxygen what they want to see” for the level in river water, which is a key river system and water resources, indicator of water quality. Other said Minshall. “So we started with targets
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