County reaches 2,000 projects

Those who attended the Friday, April, 1, 2016 meeting of the Huron County Water Protection Steering Committee (HCWPSC) heard an historic announcement.

Jim Ginn, Chairman of the HCWPSC Committee, shared with the crowd in Holmesville that the Huron County Clean Water Project has achieved the mark of providing grants to help fund 2,000 water-quality improvement projects completed by Huron County landowners, residents, and community groups.

The Huron Clean Water Project is funded by the County of Huron. The Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield conservation authorities provide service delivery. To recognize the success of the County of Huron, and its residents, to date, the conservation authority made a presentation to the county marking 2,000 projects completed in the county, by people of the county, with county support.

These were the words accompanying this commemorative presentation marking ‘shovels in the ground’ and projects completed on the ground: “Presented to the County of Huron, by the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield conservation authorities, in recognition of 2,000 water quality improvement projects completed on the ground by landowners, residents, and community groups through grant support from the Huron County Clean Water Project. April 1, 2016, Holmesville, Ontario.”

Shown in photo, from left to right, in honour of this achievement by the County of Huron and the people of the county, are: Susanna Reid, Planner, Huron County; Rachel White, Stewardship Coordinator, Huron Stewardship Council; Neil Vincent, county councillor and member of the Huron County Clean Water Project (HCCWP) Project Review Committee; Dave Pullen, Forest Conservation Officer; Paul Gowing, Warden, Huron County; Jack Kroes, Project Review Committee member; Kate Monk, Manager of Stewardship, Land and Education with Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA); Doug Hocking, Water Quality Specialist, Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA); and Jim Ginn, county councillor and Chairman, Huron County Water Protection Steering Committee. Not in photo is Ben Van Diepenbeek, county councillor and Chairman, Project Review Committee.