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Winter Is Here and It Is Time to Get out and Enjoy It! THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice YEAR 43, No.1 JANUARY 2015 Winter Is Here and It Is Time To Get Out and Enjoy It! The new Lansdowne Outdoor Rink is open; can the canal be far behind? (More about the rink on page 13, for Winterlude events see pages 6 and 8.) PHOTO BY ROGER LALONDE The Hopewell Ave. Public School ‘Every Leaf Counts’ Yard Campaign needs to raise $200,000 by March 1, 2015 to get a better yard for the next school year. See page 20 and 21 for this important local story. JOIN THE Google “Hopewell Yard” or go to http://bit.ly/hopewellyard for more information or to FIREHALL donate. FITNESSER CENT COMMUNITY CALENDAR Monthly membership $40 Mon. January 5, 19:00 - 21:30 Rehearsals start for Ottawa Brahms Choir, 4 Month membership $130 Parlour Room Southminster United One Year membership $300 Tues. January 6, 19:00- 20:30 Art show by Brenda Small, Life of Pie Wed. January 7 Sunnyside Library program registration Sat. January 24, 19:30 Piano Recital “Bach And His Legacy” with Drop in Charles Richard-Hamelin Fri. January 30 to Winterlude for only Mon. February 16 $8 Sat. January 31, 8:30 – 15:00 Polar Hero Ottawa Race. Canal Skateway *registration in any OSCA Sat. January 31, 9:00 Sir John A’s Great Canadian Kilt Skate, program entitles you Canal Skateway Fifth Ave. Sun. February 1, 11:00 Cracking-Up the Capital: Guinness World to a 25% discount at Record Attempt the Firehall Fitness Wed. February 4 to Sat. Lansdowne Park Snowscapes: Community Centre. February 7 Snow Sculpture Contest FREE CONSULTATION Sat. February 14 OSCA Valentine’s Skate with one of our personal trainers. To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 THE OSCAR l JANUARY 2015 What the Heck’s Happening at Brewer Pond?? Brewer Pond is being re-linked to the river. PHOTO BY JENNIFER LAMOUREUX The Problem with Brewer Pond and enhance sport fishing on this Each spring, Brewer Pond is inun- part of the Rideau. Muskie Canada’s dated by Rideau floodwaters. As wa- (www.muskiescanada.ca) interest in ter levels drop, trapped fish die in the the project flowed from its mandate landlocked pond. The bottom of the to protect muskellunge, an iconic pond is 1.5 metres above the Ride- fighting sport fish indigenous to the au’s bottom, so not much water stays Rideau system. The club conducts in the pond. What’s left becomes research and manages muskies to almost stagnant. Tests show that the enhance the sport fishery, and carries oxygen level in the pond is so low out projects designed to raise public that it cannot sustain most aquatic awareness of the muskellunge. life, including amphibians, fish and The problem, as always, was plants. It’s definitely not a good place money. How could such a costly for fish to lay eggs or for minnows project be funded? The Department to feed or overwinter. It doesn’t even of Fisheries and Oceans requires support a healthy frog or plant popu- developers to compensate when their lation. Moreover, there’s not much developments destroy fish habitat. wetland suitable for fish habitat on The RVCA remembered discussions the shores of the lower Rideau. about Brewer Pond, and has experi- ence with similar but smaller resto- Brewer Pond Restoration: The ration projects. The Brewer project PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI Solution is still being refined by consultants The answer? Create 16,000 square from Minto and Richcraft, with input By Carol Macleod the Environmental Committee of metres of suitable fish habitat on the from the local community. The esti- Ottawa South (ECOS) rooted out lower Rideau River by reconnecting mated budget is $1 million. Those of you who have been around invasive species and planted native the old swimming hole to the river a while may remember fondly the shrubbery around its shore. It also by a large culvert, and adding brush What Will the Project Involve? swimming hole on the Rideau at developed a signed interpretive trail. and other underwater hiding spots As the RVCA describes it, the Brewer Park. It has been closed Recently, you may have noticed blue to make the pond more fish-friendly. proposed restoration project is to for several decades, being slowly fencing around the pond as you cycle The area around the old change house reconnect this pond on the north reclaimed by cattails. Over the years, south on Bronson past Sunnyside. will be somewhat altered. Although shore of the Rideau River adjacent What’s going on? there will be a lot of work up-front, to the Brewer sports field east of the soon only close observers and anglers Dunbar Bridge and create a wetland will notice! It’s a project that offers embayment (a wetland pocket). So an opportunity to increase riverside far, the project involves excavat- habitat for the 40-odd species of fish ing the pond to create three levels that live in the Rideau system. ranging from a depth of 4.5 meters to a one-metre shallow shelf. Brush How the Project Came About and logs will be placed in the exca- How did this project, long the vated pond to serve as shelter for fish dream of ECOS, come about? Over and frog eggs and hiding spots for more than a decade, several like- minnows. Channels will be dug to minded organizations including allow the Rideau River to flow freely ECOS, the Rideau Valley Conserva- through the pond. tion Authority (RVCA), the On- On shore, some shrubs and trees tario Ministry of Natural Resources are being dug up for replanting; oth- (MNR), the federal Department of ers will be replaced, and more trees Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the will be added. The top several inches city of Ottawa, Muskies Canada, and of soil from the surrounding shore- more recently, Carleton University, line will be removed and stored on developed a plan to return the pond to a natural wetland condition, im- Continued on pg. 3 prove connection to the Rideau River THE OSCAR l JANUARY 2015 Page 3 Cont. from pg. 2 site because it is full of seeds from plants already estab- lished there. This soil will be spread back on the shoreline when the excavation work is done. The RVCA sources fish and plant material locally where possible. Trees come from the Ferguson Forest Centre in Kemptville, which also sells tree and shrub seedlings to private landown- ers (see http://www.seedling- nursery.com/). Finding local wetland plants is a taller order. They currently come from southwestern Ontario but a major supplier has just closed. Benefits At Brewer, the RVCA be- lieves the benefits of a recon- (above) The culvert which maintains the pathway around the pond has been installed. nected pond for the Rideau (below) Sweeper trees and basking logs have also gone in. PHOTOS BY JENNIFER LAMOUREUX watershed to be manifold. The pond will allow fish species year-round access into the pond and out to the Rideau River, by allowing water to flow from the river through the pond and back to the river. It will raise the level of oxygen in the water to a healthy level to alleviate fish kills believed to be re- lated to lack of oxygen in the pond in the winter and sum- mer months. The deeper and shallower water levels in the pond will create conditions suitable for more diverse plant material both below and above surface. The mental events focused on the after to see how they use around the pond, was in- from the pond to examine restored wetland will provide restoration activities such as the new habitat. If effective, stalled. The site was then their health and will put new good new spawning, nursery, fish appreciation and biodi- the approach used at Brewer stabilized and the new banks fish into the ponds to see how rearing and food supply habi- versity, and it will provide in- could be adopted elsewhere seeded. The contractor was they do. We look forward to tat for the fish community ner city anglers with exciting for these species. The project hopeful the work would be watching the implementation of the adjacent reach of the fishing opportunities. has been advanced as an all done by Christmas. of this unique project on our Rideau River. It will provide The third local partner is example of how to plan and The RVCA will evaluate doorstep. new and enhanced winter and Carleton University. The implement a habitat creation the project for at least five summer refuge areas for fish. Brewer project simultane- project. Students are included years. Each year, the RVCA Carol Macleod is co-chair of It should increase biodiver- ously provides Carleton in meetings with project will look at how the fish are the Glebe Community Associ- sity. Finally, it will improve students with educational planners. The collaboration using the new habitat. They ation Environment Commit- water quality the length of opportunities, research ques- among levels of government, will assess the quality of tee and an avid enthusiast of the lower Rideau River as a tions and lessons in working developers, and environmen- the vegetation (how well it the natural world. result of the wetland en- with community groups. It tal and community organi- is growing), and plants will This article was first pub- hancement. has become a field site for zations is considered to be be replaced as needed.
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