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Re-elected
Alison Lobb of Clinton will serve another term as chairman of the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority's board of directors. Pat King, right, of Goderich will serve again as
vice-chairman. Congratulations were extended to them by Phil Beard, MVCA general
manager. (Listowel Banner photo)
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PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2002.
MVCA targets Middle Maitland
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that is, water quality and quantity.
One target is to bring heavy
metals in the Middle Maitland below
Listowel to levels within drinking-
water standards within the next five
years.
When sources are identified and
solutions found to eliminate these
sources, the team will work with
North Perth and Perth County, along
with support from the Middle
Maitland Rejuvenation Committee
and Water Action Team partners to
improve water quality by creating a
business water-quality program and
changing practices, for example,
regulating by bylaw what substances
may and may not go into storm
sewers.
PCBs are also on the list —
sources will be identified and control
measures created.
To lower E. coli levels to the
recreational-swimming limit (100 E.
coli in 100 millilitres of water after
the equivalent rainfall of two inches
over seven hours) and to lower levels
of pathogens and antibiotics in the
watercourses over the next 20 years,
the strategic plan calls for making
sure E. coli levels are acceptable in
sewage-treatment-plant effluent.
The team will encourage the use
of effluent filters on recent septic
systems. It will also encourage
alternatives to treating waste, such as
biofilters and composting systems,
as well as buffer strips that slow the
movement of effluent.
The goal for nitrate levels in the
watershed is fewer than four
milligrams per litre over the next 20
years; for phosphorous levels, the
goal is below .03 milligrams per litre
in 20 years. Several environmental
organizations will work together to
create standards, guidelines and new
approaches to land management.
Another goal is to increase the
ability of the landscape to hold
moisture through conservation
practices that reduce runoff, retain
soil moisture and improve recharge.
The MVCA will also encourage
the redesign of drainage systems to
slow runoff and keep soil moisture.
The result will be improved water
quality, reduced bank erosion and
lower maintenance costs.
The MVCA will refine the
contamination-risk mapping for both
surface water •and ground water.
Mapping tells how porous the
ground is, but sometimes the scale is
too coarse for site-by-site
information; refined mapping will be
more accurate.
The site-specific information will
show the potential for surface-water
and ground-water contamination.
One use for it will be the proposed
Huron County Nutrient Management
bylaw.
BUDGET
The MVCA will carry out its
valuable work on a tight-budget of
$1,498,073 that incudes only seven
per cent provincial funding this year
-- $105,346. Municipalities in the
watershed will contribute $377,640,
but revenue and user fees are
estimated at $622,911, with
donations estimated at $37,350.
Federal grants will add $92,580,
special levies (for example, for
flood-plain mvping for Listowel,
which will not benefit any other
municipality)' will add $16,581, and
the MVCA will use $205,664 from
its reserves.
Machinery
Club
meets at
McGavins
The 4-H Machinery Club held its
second meeting at McGavin Farm
Equipment in Walton on Monday,
Feb. 18. The meeting was opened
with the 4-H pledge.
Jeff and Brian McGavin were the
speakers. The members split into two
groups. feff took the first group and
talked about the different parts which
must be regularly maintained on
tractors. He showed some used air
filters that dust fell out of, then a new
filter that you could see through. -
The second group went with Brian
and he gave them a small test orr
fluids that were mixed together.
Members then switched groups so
everyone went to every station.
When both groups were finished,
they voted on the executive for the
year: president, David
VandenHoven; vice-president,
Nathaniel Peel; secretary, Brian and
Chris Regele; press reporter, Andy
Pethick.