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40 THE RURAL VOICE
News
Water quality project
to report findings
December 5
Results of a pilot project to study
one small branch of the Maitland
River watershed will be revealed at a
community forum in Blyth,
December 5.
The Total Approach Project —
Encouraging the use of Best
Management Practices in Rural and
Urban Areas, was undertaken this
year by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority as a way to
find effective ways to encourage best
management practices in both urban
and rural areas.
The study was focused on the
Blyth Creek, downstream of the
village of Blyth because it
represented a small cross-section of
the Maitland watershed with a
mixture of rural and urban
landowners and farming systems,
plus having a sewage treatment plant
for the village. There have also been
a number of stream,rehabilitation
and conservation projects over the
past 10 years, from the C.U.R.B.
program on farms to the Blyth
Greenway Project within the village.
Between spring and November 5,
water quality sampling was done at
five locations along the creek to
check on E. coli, nitrates and
phosphorous and the results will be
released at the forum to be held at
Blyth Memorial Hall from 7-9 p.m.,
following an open house from 3-5
p.m. Results of a survey of
landowners along the watershed will
also be released. Thirty landowners
were interviewed by a technician to
see what they felt were barriers to the
adoption of best management
practices, what practices they have
tried, how they have worked for them
and what type of assistance is
required to help landowners adopt
best management practices.
The project team will also be
working with landowners to
undertake some demonstration
projects in the watershed if there is
sufficient interest by the community
to do so and suitable projects that can
be identified.°