The Executive Director of the Ontario Professional Agri-Contractors Association says a 10-year project with farmers to improve the water quality in the Garvey Glenn watershed north of Goderich is now moving into the Eighteen Mile Creek watershed.

Melisa Luymes has been working the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority on the project and she said Garvey Glenn is one of six watersheds involved in the Healthy Lake Huron Initiative. She said the farmers in Garvey Glenn have done and amazing job over the past 10 years.

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit has ended an investigation into the arrest of a Southampton man last fall.

SIU Director Joseph Martino ended the investigation that stemmed from an arrest in the evening of October 7, 2022. A man was arrested by Saugeen Shores Police Service for public intoxication by an officer that night.

The federal government is preparing to put funding in place that will bring clean drinking water to Oneida Nation of the Thames after a three-year boil water advisory.

On Monday, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu said she hopes a deal to fund a proposed 18-kilometre pipeline from a connection point near Mt. Brydges to Oneida Nation of the Thames will be signed sometime this spring, allowing construction to begin shortly after.

The President and CEO of Hanover and District Hospital (HDH) believes their plan to address unprecedented patient volumes should be emulated province-wide.

Dana Howes said the hospital has the second busiest emergency department in the Grey Bruce region as the number of emergency department visitors jumped nearly 20 per cent from the previous year, and 35 per cent from pre-pandemic levels.

A reminder is going out to Canadians to be aware of radon, an invisible, odourless, and dangerous gas that could be lurking in their homes.

Health Canada’s Manager of Radon Outreach said radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that dissipates harmlessly outdoors.

A group of Wingham residents is attempting to save the Howson Dam at the north end of town.

Rennie Alexander says they maintain the dam is still a great place for people in Wingham and the surrounding area to come and enjoy fishing, swimming, kayaking and having a great time and it’s one of the few facilities in Wingham that isn’t costing the town anything.

Alexander says it does need to be repaired.

HELEN BARKWELL

A map of forever chemicals detection in the Great Lakes reveals samples caught in the Detroit River, the southern opening of the St. Clair River, the Black River at the north opening, and multiple spots of Lake Erie all came back positive for dangerous amounts of PFAS. Read the full story by WJBK – TV – Detroit, MI.

Researchers have developed a new way to combat erosion and save money by using environmental processes to feed sediment to the shore. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

Over the next five years, the city of Yorkville, Illinois will need to complete a $17 million to $18 million engineering project to replace old, leaky water mains, if it is to receive a permit from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to tap into the lake. Read the full story by Shaw Local News.

A fishing company and two of its boat captains are facing hefty fines and lengthy license suspensions after conservation officers deemed them to be overfishing lake trout in Lake Huron. Read the full story by CTV News.