Five awards were presented Saturday as part of the 4th Annual Pine River Watershed Initiatives Network (PRWIN) Environmental Stewardship Awards.[...]
Pine River Watershed
The Pine River Watershed Integration Network (PRWIN) will be able to expand its projects after being presented with a $75,000 federal government grant.[...]
By Liz Dadson
Brian MacKay (R) talks to the group about the improvements made on his property
The group checks out a nitrate filter in the Clark Creek municipal drain
Wayne Lawrence (R), plant supervisor, talks to the group in the viewing area at the Pine River Cheese Factory
Gord Cale (L), Bern Portz and Lorne Underwood check out the mouth of the Pine River
It was a whirlwind, 15-stop tour, Friday morning (June 18), as about 50 people boarded a school bus to view, first-hand, the work of the Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN).
The event was an appreciation day for the landowners, sponsors, Conservation Authorities, provincial and federal ministries, beach associations, the township, and numerous organizations that have helped out with projects to provide clean water and a healthy eco-system within the Pine River Watershed. …continue reading »
The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) will be able to keep their coordinator around for another two years with the help of a recent $30,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. Last Thursday, Huron Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell made the announcement to PRWIN representatives and its [...]
The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) will be able to keep their coordinator around for another two years with the help of a recent $30,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. Last Thursday, Huron Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell made the announcement to PRWIN representatives and its [...]
Province gives $40,000 to Pine River Watershed Initiative
On hand for the presentation are Don Farrell (L) and Dave Gibson of the Pine River Watershed Initiative Network, Huron-Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell, Huron-Kinloss councillor and network director Anne Eadie, Arran-Elderslie mayor Ron Oswald of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and network co-ordinator Adrienne Mason
The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network received a significant financial boost Thursday (May 27), with a total of $40,000 from the province to put toward this program, helping to improve water quality in the watershed.
Huron-Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell was on hand to make the presentation, beside one of the group's signs on property owned by Dave Gibson on Bruce County Road 7, just north of Ripley.…continue reading»
Ripley-Huron students learned how they could help improve the Pine River Watershed last week. Students in Grades 5-8 participated in the Pine River Watershed Integration Network's field trip The Arc Native Plant Nursery, owned by Janice McKean on the B-Line. Adrienne Mason, PRWIN coordinator said [...]
Ripley-Huron students learned how they could help improve the Pine River Watershed last week. Students in Grades 5-8 participated in the Pine River Watershed Integration Network's field trip The Arc Native Plant Nursery, owned by Janice McKean on the B-Line. Adrienne Mason, PRWIN coordinator said [...]
Attached are minutes of a meeting held in London with a number of individuals from the MOE and OMAFRA (Ministry of Agriculture) and four individuals with property at Bruce Beach, Keith Macdonald, Sue Davidson, Ian Corneil, and Brian MacEachern. Individuals from Lurgan Beach and Point Clark were invited, but were unable to attend.
Brian MacEachern has spent the past year encouraging the MOE to get behind the idea of putting small dams in ditches around HK Township to hopefully hold nutrients on the land and thereby prevent them from entering Pine River and Lake Huron. It is his believe that these excess nutrients from surrounding fields is causing algae to grow as well as various plants on our beaches. Please se attached pictures of the desired ditches.
Meeting with MOE and OMAFRA re Excess Nutrients in Lake Huron
*After the meeting was over Ian Corneil was asked to use his notes to create these minutes.
Minutes
Meeting with various supervisors and environmental specialists on April 9, 2010. People in attendance at the meeting:
Here's a short but fascinating federal survey of manure use across Canada, with a chart showing which watersheds use how much manure (in tonnes per hectare).
Southern Ontario has six of the country's Top Ten manure-producing regions, including the top three, so we own the podium on that. The Penetangore, Saugeen and Maitland watersheds are all up there. The survey is from Stats Can, based on 2006 Census of Agriculture data, and published in December of 2008. Access is free, so it might be of interest to the whole Bruce Beach Cottagers' Association.
A geographical profile of livestock manure production in Canada, 2006
Tom Spears
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