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Clinton News Record, 2014-07-30, Page 2020 News Record • Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Foundation provides support to protect and improve water quality in Bayfield area The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation is to provide a second grant of $100,000 to help protect and improve water quality in the Bayfield area. The grant will sup- port the community's con- tinued work to put into action the Main Bayfield Watershed Plan. The Foundation is to provide this funding to Ausable Bayfield Conservation over a three-year period. The Erb Family Founda- tion is a U.S. foundation dedicated to nurturing environmentally healthy and culturally vibrant communities in metropol- itan Detroit and support- ing initiatives to restore the Great Lakes Basin. The Foundation announced in 2011 its first grant of $100,000 to support the work to create, and begin to enact, a community plan for the Main Bayfield Watershed. That funding supported work between 2011 and 2013. The new grant of the same amount will continue to support positive actions by the community between 2014 and 2016. Ainslie Willock is the President of the Bayfield Ratepayers Association and a member of the Main Bayfield Watershed Plan Steering Committee. She expressed thanks to the Erb Family Foundation. "I'd like to thank the Erb family for their commit- ment to the Main Bayfield Watershed and the Great Lakes Basin," she said. "The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation continues to demonstrate their commitment to improving the environ- mental health of the Great Lakes Basin by donating $100,000 over three years to help implement the Main Bayfield Watershed Plan. It is through their generous support that our communities can work together to get natural ecological systems func- tioning to restore the wet- lands, tributaries, and riv- ers that ultimately end up in the lake." "This generous support from the Erb Family Foun- dation will help the com- munity continue to turn recommendations into positive actions to improve water quality," said Hope Brock, Healthy Watersheds Technician with Ausable Bayfield Conservation. The Bayfield and area community has already implemented some of the plan's recommendations. They have held a rain gar- den workshop, helped hundreds of landowners protect water quality and quantity by using rain bar- rels purchased through a rain barrel blitz, and completed a watershed walk to identify potential best management practices. The community steering committee for a Main Bay- field Watershed Plan set a goal to improve water qual- ity within the Bayfield River, and its tributaries. The plan offers ways to do this. These ideas include more forest cover, wet- lands, and streamside cover. Landowners can use rain barrels, create rain gar- dens, use permeable pave- ment to hold back water and allow it to filter into the ground, plant cover crops, add berms and grassed waterways, and use conser- vation tillage. Many actions by many people can help to reduce phosphorus and Escherichia coli (E. coli) concentrations, according to the plan. You can find a copy of the Main Bayfield Watershed Plan by typing in 'Main Bay- field' into the search box at the top of the Ausable Bay- field home page at abca. on.ca and pressing 'Enter.' Or, you can go directly to this link: http://www.abca. on.ca/page. php?page=bayfield-main For more information visit abca.on.ca or phone 519- 235-2610 or toll-free 1-888- 286-2610 or e-mail using the staff contact form on the Ausable Bayfield Conserva- tion website. To advertise in this BUSINESS DIRECTORY Please call Dawn Johnston 519-482-3443 Mechanical Repair Used Car Sales 90.r'- acio Steeel C:1-ita9 1 Li 619-482-8439 comoinetca CL CLI rlid 1.111 CibIMPAMY • FURNACE AND DUCT CLEANING • CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY STEAM CLEANING • COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL • WATER DAMAGE RESTORATION • STRUCTURAL DRYING IICPC and NADCA Insurance certified Locally Owned & Operated by Kevin Fritzley Phone 519.955.5822 kevin@cleanfreakcleaning.com ESS DI?ECTO'Y To advertise in this BUSINESS DIRECTORY Please call Dawn Johnston 519-482-3443 Dave 7'zaea CONCRETE FORMING C4 MM£RCb L . RES/DEN/111f. - Founikil milts a Flrnr Finishing • Circular Tanks *Sandwich WAN FREE TIM.AT1 S Iia.�b 519-5234971 fait Dave Bernard stUMPY's SERVICE • Bucket Truck Service • Tree Trimming/Removal • Stump Grinding • Free Estimates gel Est. 098 CLINTON, ON 482 43016 To advertise in this BUSINESS DIRECTORY Please call Dawn Johnston 519-482-3443 GIJETrER ARPENTRY RI, ail,' y°or caroorrj' gids.. Al.eav 01111 P611119 579-406-2742 Cali 519-440-2142 tkur LIMU noes Ia built con SEiIVICE ENERGY ATIN • ALR CONIDITIONING - ELECTRICAL PLUMBING JEFF WISE 262 Balrli$ld Road. d. Cli rdton • 519-482-7062