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Food Charter Meeting
Weds., Feb. 2
7 to 9 p.m.
Ops Community Centre, Lindsay
Featuring Lauren Baker of the Toronto Food Policy Council speaking on "So you have a Food Charter: What Next?"
Facilitated by Paul Young of Public Space Workshop.
The focus of the evening will be a presentation and discussion of the second draft of a Food Charter for the City of Kawartha Lakes, celebrate local food, and develop next steps.
No registration is necessary.
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Order tree seedlings now for pickup in April
Low-cost tree seedlings are available in bulk to rural landowners. There are 13 species to choose from, including White Pine, European Larch and White Cedar.
Planting trees is a great way to create windbreaks, shelter belts and wildlife habitat. They can also provide soil and stream bank stability, and help filter water, recharge acquifers, and clean the air.
Order form and information |
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Only a few calendars left
Biodiversity: Connecting people, land and water is the theme of Conservation Ontario's 2011 calendar.
Email us with your name and address to receive a calendar mailed to your door, free, while supplies last.
See the calendar online
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Position available
The Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Committee is seeking a member of the general public to represent urban communities. The committee is developing plans that will help protect municipal drinking water sources. Applications are being accepted until February 10, 2011. Click here for more information. |
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New funding for local stewardship projects that help protect municipal drinking water
The Ministry of the Environment is providing an additional $230,000 to landowners, businesses and municipalities within the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Region, which encompasses our watershed jurisdiction, including part of Haliburton County.
The funding is for projects that help reduce significant threats to municipal drinking water sources, and is provided through the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program under the Clean Water Act.
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Ontario Minister of the Environment announces next phase of Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program at the Fleming College Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) in Lindsay, Jan. 26. From left to right: Brent Wootton, Director of the CAWT; Jim Hunt, Chair of the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Committee; Ontario Environment Minister John Wilkinson; Peterborough MPP Jeff Leal; Tony Tilly, President of Fleming College.
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To date, there have been 120 groups and individuals in our source protection region who have received financial assistance totaling over $285,000.
The types of projects delivered have included well decommissioning and upgrading, septic system inspections and upgrades, runoff and erosion control, pollution prevention reviews for businesses, and public education.
The new funding will build upon these past activities, and focus on projects that mitigate significant threats to municipal drinking water sources, based on a scientific assessment of threats.
We will be contacting those with identified significant threats when applications for the funding are made available this spring.
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Significant threats to local municipal drinking water sources
City of Kawartha Lakes Within the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Region: Municipal drinking water systems: 22 * Significant threats: 745 Parcels of land: 469 Within the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Region (ourwatershed.ca): Municipal drinking water systems: 3 * Significant threats: 233 Parcels of land: 201 * The total number of municipal drinking water systems in the City of Kawartha Lakes is 24. The Woods of Manilla system is within both source protection regions above. Region of Durham (Township of Scugog only) Municipal drinking water systems: 3 Significant threats: 193 Parcels of land: 81
Township of Minden Hills Municipal drinking water systems: 2 Significant threats: 9 Parcels of land: 7 Some of the types of threats identified: - Septic systems
- Storage of agricultural source material
- Application of agricultural source material (eg. manure) to land
- Application of commercial fertilizer to land
- Storage of a pesticide
- Application of pesticides to land
- Storage of fuel
- Storage of an organic solvent
- Storage of a dense non aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL)
About the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Region (TCCSPR)
The TCCSPR extends across the Trent/Ganaraska River watersheds, covering 14,500 square kilometres that stretches down from Algonquin Park to Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte. Within this area, there are a total of 54 municipal drinking water systems. This includes 35 municipal wells that draw water from underground aquifers and 19 surface water intakes that draw water from inland lakes and rivers or Lake Ontario. The TCCSPR and other Regions are developing Source Protection Plans, due in 2012, to reduce threats to municipal drinking water. |
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