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The July 2018 issue of Grand Actions has many stories from across the Grand River watershed.

Cover crops grown over the winter are just the right thing to do, according to some local producers who participated in the Haldimand Rural Water Quality Program (RWQP) and received an incentive payment last year.

The program offers a $20 per acre incentive on up to 50 acres to applicants in Haldimand County.

Here is the July 2018 issue of GRCA Current. Please visit the archives to see all issues of GRCA Current.

Here is the June 2018 issue of GRCA Current. Please visit the archives to see all issues of GRCA Current.

It may not be a typical groundbreaking ceremony, but students from the Conestoga College Heavy Construction Equipment Operation program had plenty to celebrate when they began working on the grounds of the future Guelph Lake Nature Centre last Tuesday.

The fourth Haldimand Children’s Water Festival at the Grand River Conservation Authority’s (GRCA) Taquanyah Nature Centre will help 500 elementary school students splash their way to a better understanding of water: where it comes from, how we use it, and how we can protect and conserve it.

Here is the May 2018 issue of GRCA Current. Please visit the archives to see all issues of GRCA Current.

A prescribed burn is scheduled to take place at the FWR Dickson Wilderness Area on Spragues Road between April 30 – May 2. The exact date is not known, since the burn must take place when weather conditions allow. There must be several days of dry weather in advance of the burn, and there must be little to no wind on the burn day.

The April 2018 issue of Grand Actions has many stories from across the Grand River watershed.

The Grand River Conservation Authority is installing warning booms or white buoys upstream of GRCA dams to warn paddlers, anglers and boaters to stay away from the dams.