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Huron County Clean Water Project informing public about staff, grant support to make projects possible 

Are you a homeowner in Huron County considering a septic upgrade? Are you a farmer in Huron County wanting to address erosion in your field? Are you a Huron County landowner or community group member with an idea for a project to protect water quality? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, staff are ready to help you and there may be grants to help too.

Huron County Clean Water Project is launching a public information campaign to run for the rest of July and the start of August. The message is simple: there are grants to help county residents and community groups to do water quality projects and program staff are here to help.

The campaign will include photos and videos posted on social media as well as website posts, advertising, and news items. Staff are using the hashtags #HuronCleanWater and #categoryaday for the campaign. The county project is to share one social media post every day for 17 days to inform county residents and landowners about each grant support category.

Conservation authority staff deliver the county program. They hope to engage more people in projects in the 17 categories. Project types include erosion control, septic systems and composting toilets, cover crops, tree planting, wetland creation, watercourse fencing, manure storage decommissioning, well decommissioning, well casing improvements, forest management plans, and community projects. 

Funding in Huron County covers up to 50 per cent of project cash costs.

“The Huron County Clean Water Project helps people do practical, on-the-ground projects that make a difference,” said Jamie Heffer, Huron County Councillor and Chair of the project review committee. Water quality projects through the program help local water quality and soil health, benefit residents and visitors, and are good for the economy, he said. County residents and community groups have completed about 3,000 projects since 2005, thanks to the support of Huron County.

If you’re a seasonal resident or full-time resident, if you are living along the shoreline or anywhere else in Huron County, if you’re an agricultural producer or residential homeowner or cottage owner or a community group member, there’s a category of project you can do, staff say.

Interested in finding out more? Phone Maitland Conservation at 519-335-3557, extension 236 or Ausable Bayfield Conservation at 519-235-2610, extension 263. (You may also phone toll-free 1-888-286-2610 or email info@abca.ca)

Find out more at mvca.on.ca and abca.ca and the County of Huron at this website link:

 

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