Project Number: 45

Project Type: Channel Restoration, Aquatic Habitat

Contact:

Geographic Location:

Township: City of Kitchener Watershed: Grand River Stream Size: 1st order UTM Grid Coordinates: 17 542930 E 4803958 N

Purpose:

To improve aquatic habitat by rehabilitating the stream, educating and involving the public and implementing and updating a subwatershed plan.

Objectives:

Produce first subwaterhshed plan in Ontario with a steering committee of interested stakeholders. Develop rehabilitation strategy for the watershed.

Description:

Comprehensive monitoring program implemented before and during rehabilitation. Instream rehabilitation implemented through community workdays and federal/provincial summer student programs. Techniques used include sediment traps, log crib walls, pollarding, debris removal, deflectors, overhangs, digger logs, channel reconfiguration and stormwater retrofits.

Funding Sources:

MNR Anti-Recession Funding, CFWIP, Friends of the Environment Foundation, GRCA, S-W Kitchener Optimist Club

Project Partners:

OMNR, City of Kitchener, Trout Unlimited, Doon-Pioneer Park Community Association, Grand River Collegiate, Southwest Kitchener Optimists Club, landowners, residents and GRCA