Join us for an update on the progress of Healthy Lake Huron's Rural Stormwater Management Model (RSWMM) Project
The Rural Stormwater Management Model (RSWMM) Project is pleased to announce the registration form is now available for the 2014 Technical Workshop.
We invite you to register now. Please visit www.ruralstormwater.com or click one of the following two links:
Registration form as link in news item
Registration form as 300 kb PDF file
You are invited to the technical workshop which will take place at Trinity Christian Reformed Church, 245 Mill Road, Goderich, Ontario, Canada on Thursday, July 24, 2014.
The technical workshop is to update you on the progress of the creation of this important new tool to help protect water quality along Lake Huron's southeast shore. A new model will help by providing better understanding of how water runs off of land during storm events, in this largely rural area, and also by helping direct limited financial resources to the projects that work best, in the areas they will have the most benefit, at the size that can have most positive impact.
Download Save the Date poster at:
Poster for Technical Workshop
For more information see news release:
Goderich is location of 2014 Technical Workshop - You are invited
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. for the morning session which will include background on Healthy Lake Huron and the new computer model in development.
The morning session, with less technical content than the afternoon, runs from 9:00 a.m. – 12 noon. Admission is free but an optional light lunch may be pre-ordered. You may pre-order by credit card by calling our office at 519-235-2610 or toll-free 1-888-286-2610 or pay by cash or cheque the day of the workshop.
The afternoon session will include more technical discussion about the model and this runs from 12:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. There is no cost to attend the workshop except for those who choose to pre-order the optional light lunch.
Healthy Lake Huron invites interested people to attend in person or to take part by phone and/or web conference. Please RSVP to Sandra Funk, sfunk@abca.on.ca, in advance (by July 17, if possible), using the registration form on the rural stormwater project website at ruralstormwater.com.
You are also invited to subscribe to the Rural Stormwater Management Model newsletter at this link: http://eepurl.com/ALRLD.
Organizers say everyone is invited and that the day may be of particular interest to drainage engineers and contractors; engineering consultants; researchers; stewardship professionals; farmers and other rural landowners; First Nations; counties and municipalities; government ministries; local non-governmental organizations; public health; and interested citizens and community groups.
Presentations include updates from the two firms helping to develop the model; Computational Hydraulics International (CHI), a consulting firm in stormwater management, wastewater and watershed modeling software; and Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc. (EOR), an engineering and environmental consulting firm specializing in water resources, watershed planning, and modeling.
The Rural Stormwater Management Model project has helped to install five new or upgraded stations along Lake Huron to provide long-term monitoring of water quantity, water quality, and weather impacts, in five sentinel watersheds that are priority areas.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) is coordinating the RSWMM water-quality project in partnership with Maitland Valley, St. Clair Region, Saugeen Valley, and Grey Sauble Conservation Authorities and other partners of the Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches initiative. Project partners include all levels of government, federal and provincial ministries, county departments and municipalities, local public health and conservation agencies, and participating landowners, community groups, and funding partners.
The rural stormwater project has received funding from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Showcasing Water Innovation Program and contributions from other partners. For more information, visit ruralstormwater.com and healthylakehuron.ca.
Rural Stormwater Management Model Project
c/o Ausable Bayfield Conservation,
71108 Morrison Line, RR 3 Exeter, ON • N0M 1S5
519–235–2610 • 1–888–286–2610
abca.on.ca
Attention: Alec Scott, Project Manager
This project has received funding support from the Government of Ontario. Such support does not indicate endorsement by the Government of Ontario of the contents of this material.
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