Runoff and Erosion Spring Freshet 2016 By George Powell, member of WAG Committee Past articles in “The Watershed News” have endeavoured to bring to the membership our concerns regarding the impact of erosion on the Blue Mountain Watershed. Our involvement in the Townline Creek Assessment Reports has been ongoing since 2007. [...]
Tuesday, 08 March 2016 22:15 With funding in hand, the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust kicks off an ambitious new project to preserve and protect a local Class A salmon & trout stream. Collingwood, ON –It began last spring when the Kolapore Springs Fish Hatchery welcomed one and all to its Feast [...]
Impact of Run-Off Above: Scenic Caves Road ditch during 2015 spring freshet before rip rap was put in place. Write up and photographs by George Powell Our Spring/Summer 2015 newsletter provided an article emphasizing the impact that increasingly turbid runoff is having on our streams and showed photographs of [...]
Silver Creek Wetland: Communicating our Vision for the Future By Don Kerr Last Sandpiper in the Silver Creek Wetlands Area. Photo by Cameron Powell For 20 years, The Watershed Trust has been reacting to proposals and applications for development in the Silver Creek Wetland area. We expected that sometime [...]
