Reports and Studies

Credit Valley Conservation Integrated Watershed Restoration Strategy

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Reflecting a systems approach, the Integrated Watershed Restoration Strategy (IWRS) aims through its development and implementation, to adopt an integrated approach to addressing threatened or deteriorated ecosystem features and functions. The IWRS sets out landscape scale priorities for conservation actions; however,decision-making must always factor both site-level and opportunistic considerations (e.g. landowner willingness, specific threats, cost efficiencies, etc).

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Last modified:
2019-07-01

Credit Valley Conservation Survey of Municipal Policies and Administrative Approaches for Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Low Impact Development

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This report is intended to inform CVC municipalities as to the programmatic approaches and solutions that have been used to integrate LID into stormwater management programs.

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Credit Valley Trail Indigenous Experience Implementation Plan

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Planning and development of Indigenous place-making along the Credit Valley Trail (CVT) is led by the CVT Indigenous Roundtable (IRT). The IRT is comprised of community members from several Indigenous nations in Canada including community members and Elders from the Missisaguas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN) as well as community members from the Credit River Metis Council, Cree, Anishinaabe and Huron-Wendat First Nations.

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Last modified:
2021-03-01

CVC Road and Valley Crossing Project Summary Report

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Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) undertook the Road and Valley Crossings Project to produce strategic tools to improve fish and wildlife habitat connectivity at bridges and culverts across the Credit River Watershed. The purpose of this summary report is to provide an overview of the methods, analyses, and results of this project.

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Last modified:
2023-08-01

CVC Sustainable Forest Management Plan (2021-2040)

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CVC’s Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP) provides direction for forest management for the next 20 years (2021- 2040), with a review and update scheduled for 2030. The overarching goal of the SFMP is to maintain and restore forest health, improve biodiversity and strengthen the resilience of forests in the watershed – on lands owned by CVC, municipal partners, and private landowners.

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Developing a Stormwater Quality Management Standard (QMS) in Light of a Changing Climate

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This report was conducted to understand the role and scope of a risk and quality management standard that could be developed to assist municipalities, engineers and other professional practitioners in designing, operating, maintaining and continuously improving stormwater management systems—both today and in light of a changing climate.

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Draft Fletchers Creek Restoration Study – Executive Summary

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The Fletchers Creek Subwatershed Plan Update provides a strategy to protect and enhance the natural resource features as land use changes, factoring in additional growth information since the original 1996 Plan.

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Last modified:
2012-02-01

Economic Instruments to Facilitate Stormwater Management on Private Property

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The paper explores the mechanisms available to incent installation of Low Impact Development (LID) technologies, with particular focus on private commercial properties. It is a companion document to the White Paper on the Drainage Act, which describes how an existing legal framework can be applied to facilitate installation and maintenance of stormwater infrastructure on private property.

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