The Citizen, 1986-12-10, Page 15Bruce McCall, vice-chairman of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, spoke to members at the
Authority’s annual general meeting December 3. With him on the platform are [left] Les Tervit, MVCA
general manager, and Vince Judge, MVCA chairman and provincial representative. Mr. McCall is also
the Authority’s municipal representative from Brussels.
MVCA plans park changes
Members of the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority have given
approval to $20,000 worth of
capital improvements to the class
room building at the Wawanosh
Nature Centre, but final approval
will not be granted until the level of
Ministries of Natural Resources
funding for 1987 is known.
At the annual general meeting of
Authority members in Wroxeter
last Wednesday, secretary-trea-
surer Marlene Sheill told a large
audience that all capital projects
are ranked in their respective
categories with other projects
submitted by all other Conserva
tion Authorities in the province,
and that ranking must be carried
out at several levels of authority
before any project gets full aprov-
al.
However, she said that the
Wawanosh project “ranked well”
within its category, and that at
least partial funding will likely be
approved.
Proposed upgrading of the
facility includes the development
of a second classroom to accommo
date the increasing number of
students using the existing site,
and the addition of indoor wash
room facilities. Currently, a port
able classroom, donated by the
Huron/Perth Separate School
Board, is standing idle at the
Nature Centre, and it is felt that
developing it would be relatively
inexpensive, while the addition of
indoor washrooms would vastly
increase the appeal of the park.
Programs are offered at Wawa
nosh in the fall, winter and spring
for a total of 110 days, with over
2,000 students from Huron schools
inattendanceduring 1986. This
number is expected to rise to 2,800
in 1987, as the Huron County Board
of Education, the main user of the
site, continues to expand its
involvement in nature programs.
All user-groups contribute to the
operation of the facility through a
feeof$25 per half day program,
plusSl per childperhalfday. At
present, a long-term agreement
with both Boards of Education is
being negotiated.
During the progress report
presented by William Manning,
chairman of the Conservation
Areas Advisory Board, the mem
bership was informed of the
improvements to the Nature Cen
tre which had been completed
during 1986, including the devel
opment of a group camping area to
reduce the pressure on the main
campground, access road and
parking lot imporvements, outdoor
privie improvements, and the
installation of a water control
device on the fish ponds.
Mr. Manning also outlined the
improvements which the Authority
had carried out at a number of other
conservation areas, including the
Brussels Conservation Area, Pio
neer Conservation Area at Blue
vale, and the Gorrie Conservation
Area.
Norman Haid, chairman of the
Land Management Advisory
Board, later reported on the
erosion control work carried out by
the MVCA at the Max Watt
property in Brussels, just down
stream from the Brussels dam. He
said that over the years loose fill
had been dumped at this site,
which had contributed to a serious
bank erosion program along some
400 feet of river bank. The overall
project involved the reshaping and
replacement of rip-rap, culvert
extensions, seeding and mulching.
A major portion of the MCVA
budget proposed for 1987 is
intended to go towards preliminary
engineering process as part of the
Goderich bluffs stabilization pro
ject, where some 20 Goderich
residences are at varying degrees
of risk due to bank erosion. Other
funding is being requested for an
engineering study to determine
whether the Howson Dam in
Wingham can be repaired, or will
have to be replaced.
In total, the 1987 preliminary
cost estimates of MCVA proposals
are set at $2,779,448, compared to
an approved budget of $2,442,739
for 1986.
MCVA general manager Les
Tervit explained that the prelimin
ary budget, to be presented to the
MNR, represents the Authority’s
intentions for the coming year.
“But if we ever got all we asked for,
we’d be more than delighted,” he
said.
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