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Etobicoke Creek Watershed Report Card 2013 Facts and Figures What We Are Doing What You Can Do Where We Are • From 2008 to 2012, TRCA planted 105,490 trees and shrubs in the watershed, actively • Divert your downspouts away from paved areas and install a rain barrel to capture We are one of Municipalities Toronto, Peel, Brampton, Caledon, Mississauga restoring and enhancing those natural heritage areas identified as priorities. Healthy and reuse the rainwater that falls on your roof. This reduces run-off to sewers, 36 Conservation Tributaries Spring Creek, Little Etobicoke Creek, West Etobicoke Creek forests provide habitat for wildlife, help cool urban areas, retain water and reduce prevents flooding and saves money on your water bill. Authorities across Length of Major Tributaries (km) West Etobicoke – 42, Main Etobicoke – 17, Spring Creek – 23 Ontario under run-off, and capture CO2 from the air to minimize the impacts of climate change. Etobicoke Creek Watershed the umbrella Mean Stream Flow 2.3 m3/sec • Reduce or eliminate the use of salt, pesticides and fertilizers, which contaminate organization of 2 Area (km ) 212 • TRCA’s County Court Sustainable Neighbourhood Retrofit Action Plan (SNAP) in rivers, ponds and groundwater supplies. Report Card 2013 Conservation Population (2011) 286,360 the City of Brampton, is engaging approximately 1,000 single family homes in Ontario. Land Use Rural – 22%, Urbanizing – 7%, Urban – 71% eco-friendly renovations that improve both water and energy efficiency inside and • Volunteer for community tree plantings, litter pick-ups or other stewardship Physiographic Regions South Slope, Peel Plain, Iroquois Plain outside the home. SNAP is working with project partners to explore innovative events. Register for a volunteer opportunity at: www.trcastewardshipevents.ca Natural Cover 14% of the watershed has Natural Cover: Forest – 5%, stormwater management opportunities, such as a rainwater storage system for What Does this Report Card Measure? Meadow – 8%, Successional – 1%, Wetland – 1% irrigating nearby golf courses and an institutional green parking lot design. • Become a Watershed Champion to protect, regenerate and celebrate the Native Plant & Animal Species Plants – 375, Fish – 23, Birds – 93, Amphibians – 8, Etobicoke Creek watershed. Visit: www.trca.on.ca/watershed-champion to get Mammals –17, Reptiles – 7. Of these, 165 are Species of • Local municipalities are working with their snow and ice contractors to reduce the involved. Regional Conservation Concern. amount of salt applied on parking lots and exploring alternatives to traditional road salts to help improve water quality. Melting snow carries road salt and other • Call the Ministry of the Environment’s 24-hour hotline (1-800-268-6060) to report Surface Water Quality Forest Conditions Groundwater Quality Stormwater Management contaminants into storm sewers and straight into Etobicoke Creek and Lake Ontario. spills so that they can be managed quickly and properly. Why Measure? • TRCA in partnership with Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and local businesses Donate to The Living City Foundation to support programs and Measuring helps us better understand our watersheds. It helps us to focus our eff orts where they are needed through Partners in Project Green is developing North America’s largest eco-business zone most and to track the progress made. It also helps us to identify ecologically important areas that require initiatives in the Etobicoke Creek watershed at within the Etobicoke and Mimico Creeks watersheds. The program aims to reduce the water protection or enhancement. footprint by investing in water effi cient fi xtures, recycling astewater,w harvesting rainwater www.thelivingcity.org What is a Watershed? Bradford - for landscape irrigation and cooling operations, and installing permeable parking areas on West Gwillimbury A watershed is the area of land that catches rain and snow, Uxbridge Scugog Newmarket Whitchurch- the industrial lands surrounding Toronto Pearson International Airport. SIMCOE Stouffville which drains or seeps into a marsh, creek, river, lake or New Tecumseth Adjala - Tosorontio groundwater. Watersheds are the collectors, filters, conveyers Aurora visit Whitby • Urban forest studies have been completed for the cities of Brampton, Mississauga www.trca.on.ca/emcreeks and storage compartments of our fresh water supply. King DURHAM Pickering and Toronto, and the Town of Caledon; these studies have been completed through and subscribe to the CreekTime Newsletter Richmond the collaborative eff orts of TRCA, regional and local municipalities and neighbouring Hill Markham Ajax Conservation Authorities. The Region of Peel, together with Conservation Authorities and YORK PEEL Vaughan area municipalities, has developed an Urban Forest Strategy, and the City of Toronto has Caledon developed a Strategic Urban Forest Management Plan. Collectively these documents will Join us on Facebook provide strategic direction for sustaining and expanding the urban forest. www.facebook.com/EtobicokeMimicoCreeks Grading 5 Shoreham Drive, Downsview, Ontario M3N 1S4 TORONTO Follow us on Twitter Excellent • The Region of Peel is working closely with TRCA to develop a web-based tool to track www.twitter.com/EtobMimicoCreek T: (416) 661-6600 F: (416) 667-6274 A Etobicoke Creek and manage hazardous spills in the region. Spills of chemicals, petroleum products, E: [email protected] Good Brampton Watershed sewage and hazardous wastes pose a serious threat to water quality. B HALTON The standards used in this Report Card were developed by Conservation Lake Ontario Fair Halton Hills Authorities to ensure consistent reporting across the Province of Ontario. Mississauga C Poor They are intended to provide watershed residents with the information ± Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) D needed to protect, enhance and improve the precious natural resources has prepared this Watershed Report Card Very Poor that surround us. on the state of forests, surface water, F groundwater and stormwater conditions. Information contained in this Report Card is for communication purposes only. For more details, visit: www.trca.on.ca/reportcards About the Indicators Etobicoke Creek Watershed Report Card 2013 This Report Card provides a snapshot of some environmental conditions in the Etobicoke Creek watershed. Surface Water Quality Forest Conditions Groundwater Quality Stormwater Monitoring, measuring and reporting helps us better understand the watershed, the progress we’ve made in protecting it and the threats to its future health. Tracking the environmental indicators used in Indicators Indicators Indicators Management this Report Card provides watershed residents, and the general public with the information needed to Total Phosphorous % Forest Cover Nitrate and Nitrite NO GRADE protect, restore and improve the precious natural resources within our watersheds. Where possible, an D F Indicator F arrow is included alongside grades to show whether conditions are improving, getting worse, or stable. E. coli Bacteria % Forest Interior Chloride % of Developed Area with Stormwater Controls- Benthic Macroinvertebrates (BMI) % Riparian Zone Forested Groundwater quality in the Etobicoke is not graded due to What Does this Report Card Measure? insuffi cient data. Quality and Quantity (i.e., stormwater management pond) Surface Water Quality Bradford - Va u gh an Vaughan West Gwillimbury Va u gh an Total Phosphorous – High levels can trigger blooms of algae that choke waterways with plant life Uxbridge Scugog Newmarket Caledon Caledon SIMCOE Whitchurch- Caledon 7 7 Stouffville 07 0 Y 40 PEEL 4 PEEL HWY 4 PEEL HW New Tecumseth HWY and deplete oxygen levels in watercourses. Adjala - Tosorontio T E T E ST E EN S EN S E EN E. coli QUE QUE Aurora QU Bacteria – Indicate the presence of untreated human or animal waste. H H H UR U U R R ON O Whitby O N N H T H T H T A A W W A W R R R I IO I King O Y Y 4 O Y DURHAM # S #* 4 S 4 * ST T T 0 0 0 0 N 0 0 Benthic Macroinvertebrates (BMI) – Bottom-dwelling stream insect larvae, snails, crayfish and Pickering ETOBICOKE N ETOBICOKE (! ETOBICOKE N H H HW HEADWATERS HEADWATERS W # *# HEADWATERS W Y * Y Y DUFFINS 4 4 4 2 2 2 !! 7 7 clams are sensitive to many pollutants. The presence or absence of certain invertebrate species (( 7 *# CARRUTHERS (!(! (! (! *# Ric hm ond ROUGE reflects the water quality conditions. *# Hill *# *# Ajax H SPRINGH CREEK SPRINGHWY 41 CREEK SPRINGW CREEK W Y *# Y *# Markham 4 41 Vaughan *# 1 0 HUMBER 0 0 YORK PETTICOAT FRENCHMANS 9 ! M 9 M (M(! 9 ! 0 A ( A 0 BAY A 4 I 4 Forest Conditions IN 40 IN *# N TORONTO TORONTO Y TORONTO Y S S Y ST T T W PEEL H W HW W W HW R R D D ETOBICOKE WEST DR D D ETOBICOKE WEST R ETOBICOKE WEST Caledon R IRD I I A A BRANCH % Forest Cover – Woodlands absorb run-off, filter out pollutants and increase biodiversity. They V V OVA O O B BRANCH (! B BRANCH B (! HIGHLAND Brampton (! Brampton DON Brampton also help reduce the impacts of climate change. ! (! *# ( *# ± ETOBICOKE ± ETOBICOKE ETOBICOKE TRIBUTARY 3 ± TRIBUTARY 3 TRIBUTARY 3 TRIBUTARY TRIBUTARY *# TRIBUTARY % Forest Interior – Large blocks of forest cover provide homes for many sensitive species of birds MAIN BRANCH MAIN BRANCH *# TORONTO Urban with MAIN BRANCH Water Quality 4 4 MIMICO Stormwater Control 4 ! ( Monitoring Sites (! Urban with No and other animals. LITTLE ETOBICOKE LITTLE ETOBICOKE (! LITTLE ETOBICOKE ± BMI Sites Stormwater Control (! H H CREEKHW CREEKW CREEKW Y 403 1 Y 1 Y 40 4 40 4 401 Y 0 Y 0 W 3 W 3 % Riparian Zone Forested – Vegetation along watercourses keeps the water cool, prevents HWY H H Bram pton Legend *# Provincial Groundwater erosion and provides homes for many species. ETOBICOKE Monitoring Network Well (! HALTON Lake Ontario Mississauga (! Mississauga Mississauga Halton Hills *# Deep Aquifer Halton Hills LOWER Halton Hills LOWER Halton Hills LOWER ETOBICOKE ETOBICOKE ETOBICOKE Mississauga *# Shallow Aquifer (! Grading Lake Oak Ridges Moraine Lake Groundwater Quality Lake (data: 2006 –10) On tario (data: 2008) On tario On tario Nitrate and Nitrite – These contaminants come from agricultural manure, fertilizers and leaky septic systems, and may indicate a possible health threat.
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