Pollution in South West Nova

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Nove 3rd 2009
Congratulations to all of you for letters sent, calls made, meetings attended.  The result is we have a stronger bylaw to protect waterways.  Congratulations to Randy Cleveland for being appointed to a special committee to work on bylaw review and revision.  Also best of luck to Shonda Jeffery and Richard Graves with your applications for the Planning Advisory Committee.  You will both be great citizen representatives of the Municipality.

I have written thank you notes to councillors for their hard work listening to submissions at the hearing, reading submissions, and advocating for environmental sustainability.  I will deliver these to the office tomorrow.
Again, thanks for all your hard work working for a sustainable community.
Take care and stay healthy,

Municipality of Yarmouth have put a commutation survey

The survey is located on the left hand side of MODY's webpage   http://www.district.yarmouth.ns.ca/ there are some pick the rating categories but at the end it is a wide open comment section about how well you feel the councilors or the warden's are able to commutate to the people.  I suggest every one fill this out and send it to all their contacts on their e - mail list.  The PR committee is to review and make recommendations to council. Councilors on this committee include John Cunningham, Heather Macdonald, and Ken Crosby
 

Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora Lakes

Here are the subset from the Tusket/Carleton System of the High Priority Lakes listed in the Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora Recovery Strategy. The number in brackets is the number of high priority species (red and yellow) on those lakes.
Lake Vaughn Reservoir has historically had 3 Red listed and 2 yellow listed ACPF species now believed to be extirpated from the lake. The lakes that we will be inventorying next year

Wilsons (8)   Gillifillan (6)   Bennett's (6)   Lac De L'Ecole (6)   Kegeshook (6)   Pearl (5)   Salmon (4)   Third (4)   Fanning (3)  > Agard (3)   Parr (3)    Travis (3)   Ellenwood (2)   Sloans (2)   Canoe (1)   Kempt Snare (1)   Louis (1)   Pleasant (1)


 Contact with Environment Canada

Our best hope it seems is at the municipal council level (land use bylaws) & federal level (Environment Canada - DFO specifically - under the Fisheries Act), at least until we can get federal legislation regulating nutrient input into waterways (http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/En21-205-2001E-2.pdf). I have been writing to Ottawa about nutrient pollution legislation (NDP, Liberal, PC).

You are correct that there is no federal legislation that deals specifically with farms or even nutrient as a potential pollutant.  In case where there is no specific legislation and a waterway is involved, our primary regulatory tool is the general provisions of the Fisheries Act, which aims to protect the Canadian fishery.  Based on your e-mail, we will be taking a closer look at Carleton Watershed, including the Water Quality Survey you referred to in your initial e-mail, in order to better determine the potential sources of pollution subject to the Fisheries Act. 
Thank you again for bringing this issue directly to our attention.
York Friesen