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Maitland Authority announces X973 capital budget
Capital projects 'to be under-
taken by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority (MVCA)
this year will increase the Auth-
ority's budget by nearly $60,000.
At the annual meeting held
in Wroxeter, the 89-member
Authority unanimously approved
a budget for 1973 inthe amount of
$306,540. Last year's budget was
for $232,625. Capital expenditures this year
alone total $239,240,-more than
last year's total budget. Of that
amount $158,640 will be spent for
conservation areas, $40,900 for
engineering and $3,700 for flood
control.
The Falls Reserve Conserva-
tion area will get some $51,620,
the Gorrie Conservatiorp Area,
$11,390, the Galbraith Conserva-
tion Area, $6,630, and the Harris-
ton-Minto Conservation Area,
$7,000.
Capital expenditures also in-
clude the acquisition of the
McDowell property, a 400-acre
property near Belgrave in East
Wawanosh Township for wildlife
propagation and reforestation,
Some $59,000 was budgeted for
acquisition of the property along
with $6,000 for planning and de-
velopment.
Jack Graul of RR 2, Gadshill,
F nide Township's representative
on the Authority was re-elected
chairman of the organization for
1973. Re-elected vice chairman
was Lorne Murray of Moorefield,
Maryborougli Township's repre-
sentative.
Substantial changes were
made in administrative regula-
tions which will allow the chair-
man, who must be elected an-
nually, to hold office for a
maximum of five years. pre-
viously the maximum was two
consecutive terms. Other
changes removed the past chair-
Man from the executive and called
for the naming of vice chairman
as well as chairmen of advisory
boards.
In his address Mr. •Graul
blasted branch officials for their
Policy of transferring' resource
managers. Andy McBride, Mait-
land Valley's resource manager
was recently transferred to the
Saugeen Conservation Authority.
His replacement has not yet been
named for the Maitland Valley
area. The Saugeen Authority has
a number three rating as com-
pared to the Maitland's number
two.
"How can we ever become a
number three area if no one is
here long enough to get a decent
program going?" Chairman
Graul wondered. "We just nicely
get going and we get our program
shot out from under us." •
Mr. Graul said the province
insists upon each authority having
• a five-year prOgram, " buthto,v in
hell can we do -it, if we don't
have a man here long enough?"
he questioned. "The bigger
authorities get around this by
A delectable
diet of oil
Oil spills are spoiling our
oceans. Killing fish, sea birds,
water mammals, and marine
plants. If the proposed Alaskan
pipeline is built, the Coast Guard
estimates that almost 400 barrels
of 'oil a day might be spilled
by tankers. That could add up
to 150,000 barrels a year. The'
Pacific coast will be black and
blue.
The Navy is working on a biz-
arre counteroffensive. They are
experimenting with several kinds
of marine bacteria that actually
eat oil. So far,' they've found
62 different species. For the
most part, the bacteria are eff-
ective against marine diesel oil,
but crude oil is apparently diff-
icult for most types to digest.
The, experimenters have done
their most successful work with
a type called pseudomonas. Ten
thousand of these microorgan-
isms are put into a small-sized
flask filled with water and min-
eral salts. When a few drops of
oil are added to the salt water,
the bacteria can break doWn al-
most 75 percent of the oil into
smaller, harmless compounds.
All within '48 hours. In that
time, the bacteria population ex-
plodes to an incredible 20 million.
The• researchers are not sure
the bacteria alone will be enough
to clean tip big spills such as
the Santa Barbara one in 1969.
But they hope to stockpile freeze-
dried bacteria, clearly catalogu--
ed according to their specific
oil-eating preferences, that could
be dumped quickly on oil spills.
The microorganisms would Mul-
tiply like mad and gulp down their
oleaginous surroundings.
Bacteria can't do the whole
job. But somehow humans have
to prevent pollution of the ocean.
The fragile plankton floating in
the sea produces nearly '70 per-
cent of the free oxygen in our
atmosphere. Without oxygen
there can be plenty of bacteria
but no human life.
To find out more about how
pollution affects the air we
breathe, contact your local tub-
erculosis and respiratory dis-
ease association. a.thatter
of life And breath.
- SWEAT S,.1:11-11T$
telling their resource managers
that if the government moves:
them, then they'll retain them on
their own: but we don't have
this kind of money,"
To help get around the prob-
lem, the authority will attempt to
retain a technical assistant hired
this winter with the aid of a gov-
ernment grant. Such a technician
will help ensure program con-
tinuity, Mr. Graul said.
Referring to Mr. McBride,
Mr. Graul said, "Our loss is the
Saugeen's gain. we realize this
is a step up for Andy and we wish
him well."
Replying to the chairman's
criticism of branch policy, Russ
Powell, southwest regional
liaison officer for the conserva-
tion authorities branch, said he
didn't like the situation any
better than the authorities them-
selves, but could see no im-
mediate Solution.
Mr. Powell said the branch
was "not in very great shape
at the moment." "we are a
small branch and we have a lot of
vacancies," he. said.
Mr. Powell said he hoped a re-
placement for Mr. McBride could
be named in the near future, "but
I can't guarantee you how 'long
the next man will be here either."
He agreed that a technician
would fill a needed role for the
authority.
Added to the authority's list
of projects for 1973 were an ero-
sion control program for the
Town of Goderich and work on a
Maitland River hiking trail for
Colborne Township.
Frank Walkom of Goderich
outlined the erosion problem
which threatens some houses in
the town. Recent landslides had
knocked out the walls of one
house :and taken approximately
half the front lawn of another
property, he said. The MVCA
will investigate the possibility of
undertaking the work as a grant
project.
As for the hiking trail, Chair-
'man Graul said the authority
didn't expect to finance the pro-
ject, but did hope to get Sweep
personnel to help clear the trail.
Mr. Graul praised the work of
Sweep students in general,
saying they had greatly assisted
the authority in a number of pro-
jects.
Harold Hyndman of Howick
Township presented the authority
with a petition which ratepayers
of Wroxeter had presented to the
Howick Council, asking that the
MVCA take over, the Wroxeter
dam and park for development.
Mr. Hyndman said council was in
favor of the petition and would be
sending a letter to this effect to
the authority,
The per capita levy for 1973
expenditures by the authority, as
outlined by secretary-treasurer
Marlene. Schiell, is set at $1.315
as compared to $1.32 in 1372,
The 1973 budget of $306,540
represents a general levy to the
29 municipalities of $57,642, up
slightly from the $50,186 levied in
1972 and ranges from a high of
$6,744 for Listowel to a low of $24
for Kinloss Township.
Government subsidies will
bring in $207,753, Other reve-
nues include: receipts from the
Falls Reserve Conservation
area, $10,000; surplus from last
year.; $14,560 (another $10,000 in
surplus funds is set aside for
working capital); special levies
for resource and •flOodpla.in map-
ping projects, $16,585.
Administration costs for 1973
were set at $49,700 as compared
to $38,625 in 1972. Dam main-
tenance costs were set at $4,600
as compared to $1,000 a year ago
and general maintenance climed
to $13,000 from $8,490.
Advisory Boards ---
Members of advisory boards
named for 1973 were as follows
with the first and second named
being chairmand and vice chair-
man respectively;
Flood Control Advisory
Board-Jack Alexander of wing-
ham, Vince Judge of Listowel,
Wm. Manning of Blyth, Charles
Thomas of Grey Township,
Frank Walkom of Goderich,
Edwin Illman of Logan Township,
Robert 0. Wenger of Listowel,
provincial representative; Allan
Campbell of McKillop Township.
Reforestation, Land Use and
wildlife Advisory Board-Grant
McLellan of Arthur Township, R.
George Bridge of Palmerston,
William Miller of Clinton, Harold
Errington of West wawanosh
Township, William Evans of Kin-.
loss Township, Arden Barker of
Mornington Township, Hugh
Flynn of Hullett Township, How-
ard Lancaster, division manager;
K. G. Henry, conservation officer
with the Ministry of Natural `
Resources.
• Public Relations Advisory
Board-Albert Carson of Wallace
township, Ross Wilkie of Harris-
ton, Carl Dalton of SWorth, Earl
C. Smith of Milverton, Earl
Rawson of Goderich, government
representative; Ross Taylor of
East Wawanosh Township, Harold
Hyndham of Howick Township.
Conservation Areas Advisory
Board-Robert Grasby of Morris
Township, Garnet Wright of
Goderich Township, JohnCoghlin
of Elma Township, L, M, Siefried
of Minto Township, Ralph Jewell
of Colborne Township, Lyle Jack-
son of Listowel, provincial rep-
resentatiVe; George McCutcheon
of Brussels, Jackson DUnkin of
Turnberry Township.
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