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Working in Partnership to Improve Water Quality Newsletter Summer 2012 Working in Partnership to Improve Water Quality A team of dedicated environmental professionals • The North Shore sub-watershed (Garvey Creek/ joined together in 2011 to coordinate actions aimed Glenn Drain) at improving overall water quality along the southeast • Bayfield North (including Gully Creek) shores of Lake Huron. This group is leading the • Main Bayfield watershed Healthy Lake Huron – Clean Water, Clean Beaches • The Lambton Shores tributaries in Lambton campaign, a concerted effort to address nuisance algae County concerns and to promote safe and clean beaches and shorelines from Sarnia to Tobermory. In addition to this newsletter, a website has been This Issue: created to keep residents and communities informed, The past 20 years has seen an increased focus on create a dialogue, and form more partnerships to • Project Highlights for All Five water quality issues, including nuisance algae and support this effort. For more information, please visit Priority Subwatersheds beaches posted as being unsafe for swimming. This www.HealthyLakeHuron.ca. situation is caused by a combination of nutrient • Being Septic Smart! The and bacterial pollution from private septic systems, Inside Story municipal wastewater, agriculture, and natural • Parks Canada Protects Beach sources. Canada and Ontario, in partnership with local municipal governments, health units, from Phragmites conservation authorities and local organizations, are • Friends of Sauble Beach working to develop and implement recommendations for actions to deal with these concerns. • E. coli Bacteria and Beaches • $700,000 for Rural To address algae issues and beach safety concerns, Stormwater Management all partners are focusing on and coordinating actions that are aimed at lowering the amount of phosphorus One of many summer paradises on the Lake Huron • Lake Huron’s Unique Algae and reducing incidences of high levels of bacteria (such shoreline: Boiler Beach, south of Kincardine. Problem as E. coli) entering the water. Lowering phosphorus Photo: Telfer Wegg. levels in the water will reduce algae growth. If we Tobermory take actions to minimize Healthy Lake Huron bacteria entering the G E O R G I A N B A Y Priority Subwatersheds Participants and Supporters water, this will reduce Lion's Head MU S K OK A Pine River Federal Government - Environment risks to human health North Shore (Garvey/Glenn Drain) Canada, Parks Canada, Fisheries and and result in fewer beach North Bayfield Ocean Canada postings. Main Bayfield Wiarton Lambton Shores Sauble G R E Y S A U B L E Beach Ontario Provincial Government - Five key watersheds Southampton Owen Sound Ministry of the Environment, Ministry have been identified Port Elgin SI MC O E of Natural Resources, Ministry of L A K E H U R O N as priorities for G RE Y Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, C immediate action. The U BR U C E a S A U G E E N S Ministry of Municipal Affairs and n Kincardine group works together A a Hanover d ( a Housing M Point Clark with local partners to DU FF ER I N i ( c O h develop and support n i t Municipal/County Councils - Bruce g a a the implementation of r n i County, Huron County, Lambton County o ) ) M A I T L A N D watershed management Listowel PE EL Goderich WE LLI N G TO N Health Units - Grey Bruce Health Unit, plans, with targeted HU R O N Huron County Health Unit, County of actions such as tree Bayfield WATE R LO O HA LTO N Lambton Community Health Services planting or other erosion PE RT H control projects, as StratfLorEdGEND Conservation Authorities - St. Clair Grand Bend Towns well as monitoringM IC H I GandA N Region, Ausable Bayfield, Maitland Ipperwash Beach Cities < 200,000 research needs, for each Kettle Point A U S A B L E Valley, Saugeen Valley, Grey Sauble B A Y F I E L D Cities > 200,B00R0A N T priority area. O XFO R D Brights Grove S T. International Boundary Other Organizations - Environmental Sarnia London C L A I R GREY Municipality/County Defence, Lake Huron Centre for Coastal The five priority areas LA MB TO N MID D LE SE X HA LD I MA N D- N O R FO L K Conservation, Pine River Watershed (also identified on the 0 10 20 40 km Area of Interest ELG I N Initiative, Western University map) are: • The Pine River sub- International Stakeholders - Lake Huron A mapK ofE N theT Southeast Shore Area of Interest. Credit: Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Binational Partnership watershed Healthy Lake Huron Newsletter, Summer 2012 Page 1 The Pine River Watershed Initiative Garvey/Glenn Network Update Drain Watershed The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) created by the Pine River Watershed Initiative Located in the Township of Ashfield-Colborne- has been very busy getting organized for the 2012 Network as part of the Experiential Outdoor Wawanosh, the Garvey-Glenn Drain watershed funding and planting year. It takes many hours of Education Centre has been identified as a priority action area by filling in applications and financial reporting to keep • The continuation of the Township of Huron- the Healthy Lake Huron initiative. A detailed the group going but more importantly the PRWIN is Kinloss/PRWIN partnership will help to establish assessment of the watershed was conducted by looking forward to a very busy field season in 2012. a forested trail walk to a historic cemetery to the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority The following is a summary of projects for 2012 that promote the idea of ecobuffers and shelterbelts (MVCA) in 2011. MVCA staff walked over 50 are both on-the-ground stewardship as well as and exhibit some niche crop species of flora along kilometres of waterways and mapped existing educational outreach; the trail. conditions. This assessment indicated that soil • The PRWIN is developing a 7-hectare • Nitrate filters will continue to be monitored in erosion is a problem throughout much of the demonstration reforestation plot that will be a site 2012. Pending results, additional filters may be watershed. Erosion contributes to high for landowners interested in forest management planned for 2013. concentrations of sediment and nutrients flowing and for demonstration tours. • Drain naturalization is also being investigated into Lake Huron from the watershed. • Completion and implementation of the Integrated to help reduce the effects of bank slumping and Watershed Management Plan. sloughing, and general top-soil loss into the lake In consultation with landowners, MVCA staff • Two videos are currently being created while improving fish habitat. recently completed a comprehensive Soil and to summarize this Integrated Watershed • Roughly 40,000 additional seedlings have been Water Environmental Enhancement Plan Management Plan and will be uploaded to ordered to be planted in the Pine River Watershed. (SWEEP) for the watershed. This plan focuses PRWIN’s website. on improving water quality by addressing the • The completion and impacts of soil erosion and nutrient runoff. Rural implementation of the stormwater management is a key component of Stewardship and Maintenance the plan. Plan will assist PRWIN and private landowners in managing The SWEEP divides the watershed into 12 sub- their plantations towards a basins. Work is expected to begin this spring biodiverse forest with potential on conservation projects in the first sub-basin, for habitat and niche market located in the headwaters. Phase one of the crops. project involves the construction of berms and a • Development of an Experiential wetland. Surface water will be collected behind Outdoor Education Centre, the berms and then tile-drained to the wetland. which will be a hub for This will reduce sediment and nutrient runoff education and outreach while filtering surface water. The berms will be programs. constructed with material excavated during the • 2012 will also see the first wetland construction process. The project is excavated wetland project A group of keen restoration volunteers. designed so that surface water collected behind Credit: Pine River Watershed Initiative Network. the berms is filtered through the wetland over a 24-hour period. This ensures the field crop is not negatively impacted by the water. This year, water sampling will be done at several Pine River Landowners Lead sites to collect baseline information on water quality. This will be compared to sampling Watershed Restoration Efforts results in future years to evaluate the impact of the berms and wetland on water quality. The relationship that Pine River for their livelihood: this gently no matter how hot the summer, Watershed Initiative Network sloping table land provides rich there would always be a deep Design work for projects in two more sub-basins (PRWIN) has with the landowners agricultural opportunities. In swimming hole to cool off in after will also be undertaken in 2012. These projects of the watershed is absolutely contrast, “below the hill” the the farm chores were done. include tree planting, construction of additional central to our mandate of sand and sun of the Huron berms, and planting grassed waterways. These restoring clean water and a Fringe area bring people from Times have changed, though, and projects will get underway in 2013 as funding is healthy ecosystem to the Pine near and far to enjoy the it is unlikely that we or anyone available. River watershed. As of 2012, splendour of Lake Huron. can turn back the hands of time. PRWIN has completed over 68 In recent decades, the population Over the past year, consultation with landowners environmental restoration Over the last few decades, of the Pine River watershed has been a significant part of work in the Garvey- projects on over 30 separate however, there has been a decline has increased and agricultural Glenn watershed. This will continue as the landowner’s properties in water quality within the Pine practices have become more projects progress.
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