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Winter activities are well underway at the six Grand River Conservation Areas that are open year-round, including Belwood Lake, Guelph Lake, Laurel Creek, Pinehurst Lake, Rockwood and Shade’s Mills conservation areas.

Several of these fee-for-use conservation areas offer cross-county skiing, snowshoeing and ice fishing when conditions allow. Winter is also an excellent time of year for birdwatching and hiking.

Parts of Brant County, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Haldimand County and Norfolk County in the McKenzie Creek sub-watershed, and Oxford County and parts of Brant County in the Whitemans Creek and Lower Nith sub-watersheds, are moving to a Level 1 low water condition.

The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) is hosting a Public Information Centre for the Brantford Ice Jam Mitigation Class Environmental Assessment (EA) on February 11, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Brantford City Hall Council Chambers (58 Dalhousie St, Brantford).

The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) shared its first annual update on the organization’s Strategic Plan at the January 23, 2026, General Membership Meeting. The organization’s 2025 – 2029 Strategic Plan was approved by the GRCA Board in May 2025.

John Challinor II, Local Councillor, Ward 2, the Town of Milton, and Shawn Watters, Mayor of the Township of Centre Wellington, will continue in their roles as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) for another term.

The City of Guelph and the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) are working on an agreement for the transfer of 126.16 acres of land along Niska Road. Today, the GRCA Board gave direction to proceed with working towards an agreement for the City to purchase the land for $756,960. The City intends to use the parkland reserve fund to make the purchase, furthering the objectives in the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Park Plan, and Future Guelph Strategic Plan.

The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) held its Annual Workshop for municipal participants of its Watershed-wide Wastewater Optimization Program (WWOP) on November 13, 2025, at its Administration Centre in Cambridge.

The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) will host a Community Open House at the new Guelph Lake Nature Centre on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., to celebrate its opening. 

Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) crews are completing the annual fall removal of its safety booms and buoys over the coming days. The booms and buoys are installed each spring upstream of GRCA dams on navigable waterways to alert paddlers, anglers, and boaters to stay away from the dams. The booms and buoys are in addition to permanent signage that is installed at GRCA-owned dams warning people of dangers around dams and alerting paddlers and boaters of portage access points.

The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) will be closing Puslinch Tract (4343 Wellington Rd 32, Puslinch Township) beginning October 6, 2025 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to complete hazardous tree removal throughout the property.