GreenSudbury

When dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean, special nets on a hillside catch the moisture and provide precious water to the village of Bellavista, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) outside of Lima, Peru.

Thanks to David Ducharme for the link to these tower photo's

Paint-A-Drain seeks to curb stormwater pollution through hands- on, service learning techniques like storm drain stenciling.

Council passed the motion that will see them make an application to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund and FedNor. If the funding applications are approved, the City will then contribute a sum of $1,875,000 to the $8,750,000 total cost;

over 1200 students have converged on the Anderson Farm Museum in Lively to learn about our most important resource at the fifth annual Sudbury Children’s Water Festival. This festival is a unique environmental learning opportunity designed to educate children about the use, consumption, and protection of water.

Barrie is seeing more dollars poured into cleaning up Lake Simcoe.Barrie Conservative MP Patrick Brown announced Thursday that the city is receiving more than half a million dollars from the $5.5 million in federal money recently announced for the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund.

EASY ways you can reduce your impact on our stormwater systems.
Go green with your stormwater habits by following these tips:
How green are your stormwater habits? Take a SIMPLE self test!

Ice Lake on Manitoulin Island has tested positive for blue-green algae, the Sudbury and District Health Unit announced Thursday.Samples taken by the Ministry of the Environment from the north end of Ice Lake contained a number of species of cyanobacteria -- blue-green algae -- which can produce toxins.

All you have to do is Google Wasi Lake and snuggled between property sales websites are the warnings about blue green algae that is impacting the lake, local business owners, and people trying to sell their homes.

Blind River's state of the art, multi-million dollar, water treatment plant has been in operation for about two years now -- but Blind River's nagging water quality problems are still not in the past.Complaints are still coming in, and councillors are every bit as frustrated as the rest of the town's residents, Mayor Bob Gallagher said at the council table recently.

Stormwater retention basins (SRBs) have been used in the City of Winnipeg since the early 1960s. The city and their land developers were in fact some of the earliest adopters of this technology. Early acceptance was based primarily on necessity as opposed aesthetics although it was recognized that retention basins did add to the visual appeal.

City council has agreed to spend $105,000 to enclose an open drainage ditch residents characterized as an "immediate and grave safety hazard" and "a scar in an otherwise pleasant neighbourhood."Earlier this year, the city completed improvements to the drainage course that runs between Raymond and Jeanne D'Arc streets in the Hanmer area.

The study was launched after McKellar Township council enacted an interim control bylaw in September 2008 — effectively freezing all development on shoreline property throughout the township for one year.