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SPRING 1982—Aerial photography, taken in the spring of 1982 has aided Authority staff in the development of
HAZARD LAND MAPPING for Elma and Wallace Townships.
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TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
The success of the Authority's programs depend on two-
way communications between each municipality in the
watershed and the Authority staff. Your municipal repre-
sentative
epro-sentative on Authority is delegated the responsibility of
bringing forth resource management concerns of the muni-
cipal residents. If you have a concern or question about the
natural resources of your municipality contact your Mait-
land Valley Conservation Authority representative. If neces-
sary, they will forward the information on to the appropriate
Authority staff.
MEMBERS APPOINTMENTS -1983
Arthur Township
Ashfield Township
Blyth Village
Brussels Village
Clinton Town
Colborne Township
Culross Township
Ellice Township
Elma Township
Goderich Town
Goderich Township
Grey Township
Harriston Town
Howick Township
Hullett Township
Kinloss Township
Listowel Town
Logan Township
Lucknow Village
Maryborough Township
McKillop Township
Milverton Village
Minto Township
Mornington Township
Morris Township
Palmerston Town
Seaforth Town
Turnberry Township
Wallace Township
Wawanosh E. Township
Wawanosh W. Township
Wingham Town
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Michael Brown
Grant Farrish
William Manning
Bruce McCall
Bert Gliddon
Russel Kernighan
Donald Dodds
George Wicke
John Vander Eyk
Donald Wheeler
Garnet Wright
Leona Armstrong
Norman Young
Gordon Kaster
Norman Alexander
George McBride
Doug Trench
Joe Vandenberk
herb Clark
Lorne Murray
William Leeming
Arnold Storey
Carman Kaye
Norman Haid
Robert Grasby
Catherine Keleher
William Dale
Randy Scott
Robert Fotheringham
Ross Taylor
Harold Errington
Bill Crump
Dave Gower
Vince Judge
Margaret Bennett
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a serious threat to many of the rural watershed resi-
dents. In other portions of the watershed, the land is
flat, the river valley is shallow with very little drop in
ground elevation. As a result, flood waters tend to
spread out over a large area. In these low lying, flat
areas, spring run-off and flooding conditions can
threaten property and life and be a nuisance to land-
owners, with flooded laneways and road washouts.
The Authority has very little information on flooding
in the rural portions of the watershed. In order to assist
rural municipalities in their landuse planning efforts,
the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority is taking a
different approach from that used in the urban centres.
Because of the lack of development pressure and the
high cost of completing engineered floodplain mapping
in the rural areas, the Authority has started a
HAZARD LAND MAPPING program. Through the
efforts of this program, the Authority is identifying
floodprone lands with the aid of local residents and
existing historical information. Therefore the floodline
identified is based ona maximum observed flood level,
rather than an engineered floodline (Regional Storm ).
This information will be collected in conjunction with
the preparation of a municipality's landuse plan. The
Authority and the municipality will then be in a better
position to develop appropriate management policies
for these rural floodprone areas.
I! you would like more information on the Authority's
floodplain management programs, please feel free to
contact the Authority office in Wroxeter.
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age of farmland when there was, in fact, a glut of his
product — beef — on the market, to the extent that he
was currently selling at a loss. The same farmer had,
worked once for CIDA in East Africa so was able to
admit that when half the world goes hungry our pro-
blems are surely ones of distribution rather than of too
much production. In fact, if one pays attention to the
seers, the predictions that food will play the same high-
profile political role in the 1990's that petro -energy did
1 the 1970's fought to drive the land use question more
directly to tht' mark.
In such a world the questions of use and the questions
\.1 ownership ar rl the questions of responsibility will
grow ever large Such a world will also shed a new light
on the motto of one of Canada's farm organizations, the
National Farmers Union which says "Land is not
something inherited from our fathers but borrowed
from our children."
Reprinted, with written permission, from the
United Church Observer, April 1982, originally written
by l,arry Kroll.).