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Grappling with Growth News for Brantford, Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo and other communities in the Grand River Watershed GRAND RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY 2005 FALL REPORT Distribution 200,000 copies Grappling with growth How will the population boom in the Grand River watershed affect the environment? By David Schultz many average citizens – to wonder how this GRCA Communications Co-ordinator growth can be accommodated. K Will there be enough water? he urban areas of the K Can sewage systems keep up? K What impact will it have on natural Grand River watershed, and areas – rivers, wetlands, moraines and forests? Tespecially its cities – K How will agriculture be affected? Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Growth has become a subject of intense study at municipal offices and at Queen’s Guelph and Brantford – are some Park, where the provincial government is of the fastest growing in the developing new planning policies for the country. Greater Golden Horseshoe. The watershed is feeling the impact of the In February, the province published Places explosive growth of the Greater Toronto To Grow, a growth plan for the Greater Area, which is pushing more people to look Golden Horseshoe area. In June, the princi- farther for jobs and homes. ples of the Places To Grow plan were written The Grand River cities are also growing into provincial law, including a provision that because they are attracting new residents in municipal land-use plans and policies will their own right, from across the country and have to conform with the growth plans that will be developed for the Greater Golden around the world. Horseshoe. The prospect of all of this growth has The Places To Grow plan notes that about caused a lot of people – municipal leaders, As the cities of the Grand River watershed grow over the coming decades, there will be provincial officials, environmentalists and Continued on Page 3 more pressure on the river and other natural areas. GRCA photo by Carl Hiebert Along Water supply Wastewater Natural areas The big question in any What are municipalities Moraines are the back- THE GRAND RIVER discussion of growth is doing to upgrade their bone of the Grand River A Canadian the whether there will be wastewater treatment system, playing a vital role enough water. plants? in providing water. Heritage River Grand Page 4 Page 6 Page 8 PaulP Emerson,AGE Chief2 – Administrative THE G OfficerRAND A Message FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CAO The GRCA growth? Or is it a symptom of unsustainable How To Reach Us Growth and balance growth? Paul Emerson, Chief Administrative Officer his year, our annual Watershed Report is focused on The Grand River Conservation Authority will be playing a Keith Murch, Assistant CAO, Secretary Treasurer the issue of growth. As the articles and illustrations role in the discussion about growth, balance and our future. It By Mail: GRCA Tmake clear, the Grand River watershed is facing a peri- is our role to work with municipalities, the province, 400 Clyde Road, Box 729 od of explosive growth, with most of it concentrated in the researchers, environmentalists and the people of the water- Cambridge, Ontario shed to address environmental issues. N1R 5W6 cities. By Phone: 519-621-2761 or, We know that there will be an immense strain on our infra- The GRCA is researching how much water is available to Direct Line: 519-621-2763 + ext. structure such as roads, sewers, water and waste disposal. serve our cities as they grow. We are conducting studies that By Fax: 519-621-4844 will provide municipalities with advice on how to improve Internet: www.grandriver.ca Many of the municipalities of the watershed are already look- ing at these issues, as is the province, which has laid the foun- their sewage treatment systems. We are working with the E-Mail General Inquiries: dation for a new strategy to address growth issues in the farming community to help them adopt better practices to [email protected] Greater Golden Horseshoe. protect water quality. Outside Business Hours: As they look at these issues, they have to measure them The GRCA is uniquely positioned to do this work because 519-621-2761 and leave message against their impact on the environment. What will it mean it works across municipal boundaries, seeing environmental (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday to to the river, streams, forests, wetlands and other natural areas? issues from a watershed-wide perspective. The residents of Friday, excluding holidays) In nature, everything is connected to everything else. The Dufferin County and Haldimand County may be hundreds of River Information Line: quality of our drinking water, whether we get it out of the kilometres apart, but they are joined together by the Grand 519-621-2763 ext. 519 river or out of the ground, depends on how we manage our River, and what each does and needs matters to the other. Planning and Permits: land, from farm field to city street. When it comes to questions of growth and balance, no one 519-621-2763 ext. 230 The challenge for all of us is to find the right balance, to has all the answers, but many are asking the right questions. Conservation Areas: 519-621-2763 ext. 250 live within our resources, to ensure that the decisions we Belwood Lake (Fergus) 519-843-2979 make today will protect the environment tomorrow. Healthy Brant (Brantford) 519-752-2040 cities depend on a healthy environment. Byng Island (Dunnville) 905-774-5755 Conestogo Lake (Drayton) 519-638-2873 One big question we need to ask is whether there are limits Elora Gorge (Elora) 519-846-9742 to growth? At what point do we conclude that growth has to Guelph Lake (Guelph) 519-824-5061 end, that our natural resources simply can't sustain any addi- Laurel Creek (Waterloo) 519-884-6620 Luther Marsh (Grand Valley) 519-928-2832 tional development? Pinehurst Lake (Paris) 519-442-4721 Consider one example. Almost all of the water we use in Rockwood (Rockwood) 519-856-9543 the Grand River watershed comes from the surface and Shade’s Mills (Cambridge) 519-621-3697 groundwater resources of the watershed. In the future, how- Reserve a campsite: ever, consideration is being given to tapping into the Great By phone 1-866-ONT-CAMP Lakes for part of our water supply. Online www.grandriver.ca But if we think of a Great Lakes pipeline as a symbol, what Peter Krause Paul Emerson Nature Centres: Chairman Chief Administrative Officer Apps’ Mill (Brantford) 519-752-0655 does it represent? Is a pipeline a tool to aid sustainable Guelph Lake 519-836-7860 Laurel Creek (Waterloo) 519-885-1368 CITY OF HAMILTON Shade’s Mills (Cambridge) 519-623-5573 WHO SPEAKS FOR Jeanette Jamieson The GRCA's Vision To be a leader in ensuring a Grand River Conservation Foundation COUNTY OF OXFORD healthy and sustaining relation- Phone: 519-621-2763 ext. 271 (including Townships of Blandford-Blenheim, 1-877-29-GRAND East Zorra-Tavistock, Norwich) ship between the natural envi- E-mail: [email protected] Alan Dale ronment of the Grand River watershed and the demands on YOU? ITY OF RANTFORD C B THE GRAND Robert Hillier, Vic Prendergast (GRCA 2nd vice-chair) this environment by all forms of is published twice a year by the GRCA, and The municipality where you live appoints one or life. distributed in newspapers to households in the more representatives to the Grand River CITY OF GUELPH Grand River watershed. Conservation Authority (GRCA) board to oversee David Birtwistle, Dan Moziar Additional copies are available. the budget and activities of the Conservation TOWNSHIPS OF AMARANTH, EAST GARAFRAXA, EAST The GRCA's Mission Letters and comments to: Authority. These members, who have often been Dave Schultz, GRCA LUTHER GRAND VALLEY, MELANCTHON, SOUTHGATE To work with partners to con- 400 Clyde Road, Box 729 elected in your municipality, speak on your behalf at Paul Chantree serve the natural process and Cambridge, Ontario, the GRCA. N1R 5W6 TOWNSHIPS OF WELLINGTON NORTH resources that support a safe and (519) 621-2763, Ext. 273 AND MAPLETON REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF WATERLOO healthy environment for future [email protected] (including Cities of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Pat Salter and Townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and generations in the Grand River Maps and graphs by Lara Vujanic of the GRCA TOWN OF NORTH PERTH, TOWNSHIP OF Printed by Grand River Valley Newspapers Woolwich) watershed. Jane Brewer, Jean Haalboom, Ross Kelterborn, Peter PERTH EAST George Wicke (GRCA 1st vice-chair) Krause (GRCA chair), Joe Martens, Claudette Millar, Jane Mitchell, Ralph Shantz, Bill Strauss, Lynne TOWNSHIP OF CENTRE WELLINGTON Woolstencroft The GRCA’s values Jean Innes Openness, clarity, understand- HALDIMAND AND NORFOLK COUNTIES TOWN OF ERIN, TOWNSHIPS OF GUELPH/ERAMOSA AND ing, sensitivity, action, holism, Craig Ashbaugh, Lorne Boyko PUSLINCH integrity, accountability, trust, Archie MacRobbie REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF HALTON flexibility, fairness, preparedness, (including Towns of Halton Hills, Milton) COUNTY OF BRANT creativity, innovation. Barry Lee Brain Coleman, Gord Moore GRAND RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY• www.grandriver.ca W ATERSHED R EPORT 2005 Growth issues P AGE 3 – THE G RAND Population boom predicted for Grand River cities Continued from Page 1 the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge in Waterloo 7.8 million people live in the Region; the City of Guelph and Greater Golden Horseshoe, which Wellington County; and the City stretches from Waterloo Region on of Brantford and Brant County. the west to Port Hope on the east, In 2001, says the report, the and from Barrie in the north to St. population of the five Grand River Population projections done by Hemson Consulting Ltd. for the provincial government forecast a population Catharines in the south.
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