Credit Valley Conservation Annual Report 2021
2021 Annual Report highlights CVC’s activities over the year and includes our financial statements.
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2021 Annual Report highlights CVC’s activities over the year and includes our financial statements.
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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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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.
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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Overview of CVC’s Showcasing Water Innovation Project.
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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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Overview of CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project featuring permeable pavement and rainwater harvesting.
Technical report of CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project monitoring results.
Monitoring plan for CVC Head Office low impact development retrofit project evaluating the effectiveness of rainwater harvesting system, permeable paving, and bioswales.
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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Improving Landscape Connectivity for Fish and Wildlife at Bridges and Culverts in the Credit River Watershed.
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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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Our Climate Change Strategy guides action with our partners, within our community and corporately.
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.
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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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).
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.
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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Overview of Elm Drive project which incorporates both permeable paver lay-bys within the road right of way and bioretention planters.
Technical report of Elm Drive road right-of-way low impact development retrofit project monitoring results.
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Monitoring plan for Elm Drive low impact development retrofit project evaluating the effectiveness of bioretention trenches.