Credit Valley Conservation Annual Report 2021 Continue Reading
2021 Annual Report highlights CVC’s activities over the year and includes our financial statements.
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Credit Valley Conservation Integrated Watershed Restoration Strategy Continue Reading
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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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.
Credit Valley Conservation Watershed Report Card 2023 Continue Reading
CVC has prepared this report card as a summary of the state of forests and water resources in the Credit River Watershed.
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Credit Valley Conservation’s Showcasing Water Innovation Project Case Study Continue Reading
Overview of CVC’s Showcasing Water Innovation Project.
Credit Valley Conservation’s Showcasing Water Innovation Project Case Study Continue Reading
Credit Valley Trail Indigenous Experience Implementation Plan Continue Reading
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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CVC Head Office Case Study Continue Reading
Overview of CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project featuring permeable pavement and rainwater harvesting.
CVC Head Office Case Study Continue Reading
Technical report of CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project monitoring results.
CVC Head Office Monitoring Plan Continue Reading
Monitoring plan for CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project evaluating the effectiveness of rainwater harvesting system, permeable paving, and bioswales.
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CVC Road and Valley Crossing Project Summary Report Continue Reading
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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CVC Road and Valley Crossings Project Technical Report Continue Reading
Improving Landscape Connectivity for Fish and Wildlife at Bridges and Culverts in the Credit River Watershed.
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CVC Sustainable Forest Management Plan (2021-2040) Continue Reading
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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CVC’s Climate Change Strategy 2019-2023 Continue Reading
Our Climate Change Strategy guides action with our partners, within our community and corporately.
CVC’s Climate Change Strategy 2019-2023 Continue Reading
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.
Draft Fletchers Creek Restoration Study – Executive Summary Continue Reading
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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Draft Shaws Creek Subwatershed Study Continue Reading
In partnership with local landowners, municipal staff and ministries, CVC has completed the Shaws Creek Subwatershed Study. This report represents the last phase in the subwatershed study series, preceded by the Background Report (2006) and the Characterization Report (2012).
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Ecological Buffer Guideline Review Continue Reading
Consultant report documenting a review of the literature and policies and practices in southern Ontario related to ecological buffers, and the development of an evaluation methodology for determining appropriate buffer widths around natural heritage features based on this review.
Ecological Buffer Guideline Review Continue Reading
Economic Instruments to Facilitate Stormwater Management on Private Property Continue Reading
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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Elm Drive Case Study Continue Reading
Overview of Elm Drive project which incorporates both permeable paver lay-bys within the road right of way and bioretention planters.
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Elm Drive LID Infrastructure Performance and Risk Assessment – Technical Report Continue Reading
Technical report of Elm Drive road right-of-way low impact development retrofit project monitoring results.
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Elm Drive Monitoring Plan Continue Reading
Monitoring plan for Elm Drive low impact development retrofit project evaluating the effectiveness of bioretention trenches.
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