News

Helping improve stormwater management

The Urban and Rural Stormwater Improvements (URSI) for Lake Huron project will complete nine stormwater improvement projects over three years (2018-2020) in Ausable Bayfield watersheds along Lake Huron’s southeast shore.
Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Canada funds work to protect, improve Lake Huron

Some of the 58 new EcoAction Community Funding Program projects across Canada are taking place along or near the southeast shore of Lake Huron.
Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2018

Local beach cleanup took place September 8

Community members in the Lambton Shores priority watershed area continued to show their commitment to keeping Lake Huron clean when 20 volunteers picked up garbage at Ipperwash Beach on Saturday, September 8, 2018.
Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program returns

The Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program (SARFIP) is back for 2018. Eligible best management practices and projects encompass activities around croplands, grasslands, shorelines, stream banks, wetlands, and woodlands.
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2018

Thousands of water quality projects in Huron

Huron County landowners and community groups have, with support of Huron Clean Water Project, completed close to 2,700 protects to protect local water quality. The value of the projects is more than $10 million. That's good for water and the economy.
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Volunteers keep thousands of items out of lake

More than 175 volunteers collected 1,072 pounds of trash, on Saturday, April 21, 2018, from the Main Beach in Goderich and the banks of the Maitland River.
Posted: Friday, April 27, 2018

Be aware of erosion, bluff stability

Lake levels are the highest they have been in years. These higher-than-average lake levels, combined with rain, high winds and wave action lead to erosion at the base of the bluffs and an increase in gully erosion in some areas.
Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Lake Huron water levels above average

A March 2018 Monthly Water Level Bulletin, from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada, said water levels in the Great Lakes are above the long-term average for this time of year and above the level of Chart Datum.
Posted: Friday, April 20, 2018

Rain gardens are helping to protect Lake Huron

There has been considerable interest in rain gardens since demonstration gardens went in at Pioneer Park in Bayfield, said Hope Brock, Healthy Watersheds Technician with Ausable Bayfield Conservation.
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018

When it seems there is no land left for trees ...

Landowners plant tens of thousands of trees locally; Funding may be available to help cover some of the costs.
Posted: Friday, February 2, 2018