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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1983-04-20, Page 401 MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES Ontanu riot, AndrI P,,pc M MAITLAND VALLE r CONSERVATION AU I H(.`HI 1 r PUBLISHED BY M.V.C.A. Watershed Plan to be completed .by 1984 Conserv:!,restor ' ivelop In 1946 the Conservation Authorities Act was passed. It is from this piece of legislation that the 39 conserva- tion authorities across Ontario receive their mandate to manage the land and water resources in their re- spective watersheds. The Act states that: "the objects of an authority are to establish and undertake in the area over which it has jurisdiction, a program designed to further the con- servation, restoration, development and management of natural resources other than gas, oil, coal and minerals." WATERSHED PLAN To accomplish this goal, the Act lists several alternatives which an authority has the power to un- dertake. The first of these is to undertake a study and investigation of the watershed to determine a program "whereby the natural resources of the watershed may be conserved, restored, developed and managed." For the last two years, staff at Maitland Valley Conserva- tion Authority have been doing just this. The end product of this study, which will be completed in 1984, will be a WATERSHED PLAN. This plan will coordinate all Authority water and land management programs and outline the activities to be undertaken by the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority over the next 15 to 20 years. The plan will serve as an effective means of com- municating the specific resource management programs to be completed by the Authority to all levels of government and the general public. To ensure that the programs undertaken reflect the problems at hand, the plan will be reviewed and updated on a regular basis. INTERIM PLAN Inventories of the watershed's natural resources have been completed. From these inventories, the condition of these natural resources will be analyzed and problem areas identified. This information will be summarized and alternative preventive and remedial measures that could be undertaken by the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority will be outlined in an INTERIM WATERSHED PLAN. This interim plan will outline what aid where the resource management problems are. It will also outline several alternative methods the Authority will undertake to alleviate the various problems. COOPERATING AGENCIES The Authority is one of several groups working to conserve the natural resources of the watershed. Like the Authority, each group has a specific and important Index Basin Studies Page 2 The Good Earth Page 3 Naftel's Creek Conservation Area .... Page 4 Vegetation Inventory . Page 6 Managing the Floodplain Page 7 Members Appointments . Page 8 Supplement to The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times, The Mount Forest Confederate, The Milverton Sun, The Goderich Signal -Star, The Lucknow Sentinel, The Clinton News -Record, The Huron Expositor, Wednesday, April 20, 1983. - �� ..., _. _ �,.,...,.n,. . ,o . aaasivratea, Volume 2 Number 1 nd m By means of open houses, public meeting presen- tations and questionnaires, the Authority will continue to obtain public opinion on what the role to play in managing these resources. In an attempt to ensure that the programs offered by each agency complement one another, and to determine where two or three groups might best combine their efforts, the Authority's watershed planning staff sponsored a series of meetings with representatives of various pro- vincial ministries, planning departments and farm organizations. The role(s) that each of these groups will take in managing our natural resources, will also be identified in the interim plan. Because of the complementary roles in resource management, the Authority will continue to communicate with these groups throughout the various steps in the develop- ment and implementation of the WATERSHED PLAN. Phase I Stage 1 resource management problems of the water- shed are, and what direction the Authority should take to deal with these problems. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT To make the plan a more workable document, we have asked YOU to help us. Many of you responded to the questionnaire in our first issue of "VALLEYS AND PEOPLE". The answers and comments received were of great assistance to Authority staff in the develop- ment of our Interim Plan. If you haven't responded it's NOT TOO LATE. Your input will be requested again later in 1983 at a number of open houses. At that time the contents of the interim plan and proposed contents of the final plan, to be completed by the end of 1984, will be presented and discussed. It's YOUR watershed. Help us make this plan work for you. Preliminary Planning REVIEW OF EXISTING RESOURCE DATA Stage 3 Stage 2 REVIEW OF EXISTING GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS Phase II Planning ESTABLISH TERMS OF REFERENCE DRAFT GOALS & OBJECTIVES S!,ige 5 DEVELOPMENT OF CANDIDATE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES Stage 7 EVALUATION OF OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS INTER AGENCY ROLE NEGOTIATIONS Stage 9 REVIEW OF PUBLIC INPUT REFINE & SELECT PREFERRED STRATEGIES (FINAL) :aatF7+w�mv...nwya+.9! Stage 4 WATERSHED INVENTORY OF RESOURCES Updating Existing Resource Concerns Data Collection on New Resource Concerns Stage 6 IDENTIFICATION OF PROGRAM ALTERNATIVES (INTERIM PLAN JUNE 1983) Stage 8 REFINEMENT OF OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS SFI.FCTION OF PREFERRED STRATEGIES (INTERIM;