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The  September 2019 issue of Grand Actions   has many stories from across the Grand River watershed, including:
Painting a digital picture of the Grand River watershed
The important role farmers play in protecting water
Retiring CAO, Joe Farwell, reflects on his 32 years at the GRCA
How a partnership has improved habitat at Laurel Creek Nature Centre
Why you should fall in love with GRCA conservation areas
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Cover crops grown over the winter on agricultural fields just make sense, according to local producers who participated in the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) Rural Water Quality (RWQP) program and received an incentive payment last year.
The program offers a per acre incentive to farmers in Waterloo Region, Haldimand, Dufferin, Brant and Wellington counties. The benefits of cover crops are numerous — they can reduce erosion, build better soil structure and...
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Updates to the plan that protects the sources of municipal drinking water in the Grand River watershed have been approved by the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks, the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) announced on Friday.
The updated Grand River Source Protection Plan was approved by Minister Jeff Yurek on August 16, 2019 and took effect that day. The plan and its associated documents are available online at www.sourcewater.ca . The Grand River...
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Work on the dike and river channel along the Grand River downstream of Veterans Memorial Bridge in Brantford is expected to get underway on Monday, August 19 th and will take approximately 4 weeks to complete. The project began in the fall of 2018 and is about 75% complete. Periodic high river levels and ice conditions along the river resulted in delays due to limited accessibility.
The project includes the reduction of a large sediment bar and placement of rip rap (large...
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This message is to provide an update and increase awareness of the potential for lakeshore flooding and erosion along the Lake Erie shoreline. Water levels in all the Great Lakes remain well above average. Lake Erie exceeded record highs in early May and while it has stabilized over the past month, continues to exceed record levels previously set in 1986.
In early July, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry updated a Flood Watch for Lake Erie based on high static...
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