Ottawa Agricultural &

Rural Affairs Committee

Leadership: Managing our local environment

Leadership : Gérer l'environnement localement

Dennis O’Grady,

General Manager/Secretary-Treasurer

Angela Coleman,

Director of Communications & Marketing

• South Nation River Conservation

Authority formed 1947

• 15 municipalities

• 3,900 km2

• 175 km in length

• 80 m elevation difference

• Flow range: 10 to 1200 m3/s

• 25% forest cover

• 176,000 residents

• 2,000 farms

South Nation Conservation Authority

• SNC reviews development

before it occurs

• Commenting role on OP and

zoning bylaws

• Consider impacts on:

• Stormwater

• Groundwater

• Landslides

• Flooding

• Fisheries

• Forests

• Water quality & quantity

• Wetlands

Protecting People and Property

• Conservation Partners

• Protecting people and

property together with the

City of Ottawa

• Floodplain mapping project

• 4 year agreement

• ~$150,000 per year per CA

• Bearbrook Project

$200,000

• Subwatershed Studies

Protecting People and Property

• Improves ground and surface water quality

• Removes:

– Nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), Sediment, Bacteria

• Projects include:

– Manure storages

– Milkhouse washwater

– Livestock access restriction

– Unused well decommissioning

– Buffer strips

• Site visits by field reps

• Run by multi-stakeholder committee

Ottawa Rural Clean Water Grants Program

Ontario Low Water Response Flood Forecasting and Warning

Watershed Management

Surface Water

Watershed Management

Groundwater

Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices:

• Controlled Tile Drainage

• Livestock Access Restriction

Partners:

• SNC

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• University of Guelph

• University of Ottawa

Watershed Research

• Ecological gift program

• Land acquisition

• Green Acres Program

• 100,000 trees planted annually

• Over 2 million trees planted to date

• Management of SNC and County

forests

• First Nations Partnerships

• Forestry Committee

• Woodlot Advisory Service

Forestry & Land Management

• Fisheries Management Plan

• Fish Species Inventory

• Fish Habitat Projects

• Fisheries Advisory Committee

Fisheries Management

Opportunities for Healthy Communities

Conservation Areas:

Findlay Creek (Ottawa)

Jessup's Falls (Plantagenet)

High Falls (Casselman)

St. Albert (St. Albert)

Cass Bridge (Winchester Springs)

W.E. Burton (Russell)

Oak Valley Pioneer Park

J. Henry Tweed (Russell)

Alfred Bogwalk (Alfred)

Robert Graham Trail (Berwick)

Warwick Forest Trail (South Dundas)

• Watershed fairs

• Weekly press releases

• Monthly watershed updates

• Year end reports

• Brochures

• Farm and trades shows

• Watershed adventures school programming

Watershed Education

• Media release

• Business signs

• Watershed signs

• Watershed Conditions website

updated

• Municipal Presentations

Public Awareness

~ together we are making a difference ~