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Family Foundation provides $100,000 to improve Bayfield River Watershed
$100,000
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The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family
Foundation, a U.S. foundation dedicated
to nurturing environmentally healthy and
culturally vibrant communities in metro-
politan Detroit and supporting initiatives
to restore the Great Lakes Basin, is pro-
viding Ausable Bayfield Conservation
Authority (ARCA) with $100,000 for its
work with landowners to restore wet-
lands, conduct community-based plan-
ning at the local watershed scale, and
other work to improve water quality
between 2011 and 2013. The project will
involve the Main Bayfield River Water-
shed which includes Trick's Creek
Watershed.
A local announcement of the grant was
made during an anniversary .celebration
at Baytleld Arena and Cornrnunity Centre
on July 21, "marking 40 ;years since the
Bayfield River Watershed, and some
small streams draining into Lake Huron,
were added to the area of responsibility of
the former Ausable River Conservation
Authority. "The generous grant from the
Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foun-
dation grant is very positive. news forpro-
tection and improvement of the Bayfield
River Watershed now and in the future,"
said Jim Ginn, Chairman of the ABCA
Board of Directors. "This donation will
engage landowners and residents in more
protectionand improvement of this
lrnportantwatershed."
Since the 1920s, four generations of Erb
family members have cottaged in Bay-
field and the family is committed to
efforts i • roving water quality, pardcu-
larly in th . tersheds impacting metro-
politan Detr , it, Michigan and Bayfield,
Ontario. The foundation was started by
Fred and Barbara Erb; of the Detroit area,
and their four children. "The Erb family
has appreciated the beautiful Bayfield
River Watershed for many years and we
are pleased to assist the community's
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efforts to protect and enhatur water qual-
ity here," said John Erb, President of the
Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foun-
dation, and son of Barbara and Fred.
Water quality improvements will
include a focused community steward-
ship effort within the smaller watershed
of Trick's Creek. The grant will make it
possible for ABCA to further involve local
people in ongoing resource management.
The Trick's Creek tributary of the Bayfield
River provides groundwater discharge
that can support a cold -water fishery..
Improvements to the Trick's Creek Water-
shed would
ater-shedwould help to enhance water qual-
ity in the Bayfield River
The grant will also promote wetland
enhancement within the broader. Bay-
field River Watershed. Other water qual-
ity improvements include identification
of actions that can reduce E. coli contri-
butions from the Bayfield River to
beaches.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada
has published a research document on
biodiversity in Lake Huron and ABCA
will work with them to try to implement
recommendations from this report.
Forty years ago, the Province of Ontario,
with support of local municipalities,
expanded the area of the former Ausable
River Conservation Authority to include
the Bayfield River Watershed and some
smaller streams draining into Lake
Huron. The then Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario, the Hon. Wil tam Ross Macdon-
ald, approved the Order -in -Council on
July 21, 1971. Ausable Bayfield Conserva-
tion Authority celebrated the 40th anni-
versary of this event on July 21., 2011..
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation
Authority Board of Directors also held its
monthly meeting in Bayfield on July 21,
2011, at the Bayfield Lions. Community.
Building, to honour the board meeting of
40 years ago.
The area of responsibility added in
1971 included the Bayfield River Water-
shed and all other streams entering Lake
1 luron from the point where the north
boundary of the former Ausable River
Conservation Authority met the shore of
Lake Huron to the point where the north
boundary of the village of Bayfield meets
the shore of Lake Huron. Bayfield River
Watershed is in the northern part of the
ABCA's area. The basin includes almost
500 square kilometres beginning north of
Dublin and outletting at Bayfield.
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