{"content":[{"text":"policies, will provide tools to assist in watershed management by Conservation Authorities across \n the province.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.088591,"width":0.7674160000000001,"height":0.037637000000000004}},{"text":"Comments from Conservation Ontario on this EBR Posting are based on submissions from South \n Nation Conservation, Credit Valley Conservation and Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. \n It is noted that Conservation Authorities may also be submitting individual comments on the EBR \n postings. The comments included in this letter focus on high-level issues.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.140864,"width":0.786265,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"Conservation Authorities have a proven track record of developing and implementing programs \n designed to reduce anthropogenic impacts to watercourses. These programs are carried out in \n coordination with municipalities and other stakeholders including the province. This has resulted in \n a level of trust and understanding between the various stakeholders that has taken years to develop. \n Conservation Authorities would look forward to a greater commitment from the province to support \n and build on these successful initiatives.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.227985,"width":0.784852,"height":0.10733300000000001}},{"text":"According to monitoring from the province-wide Lake Partner Program there are many lakes, other \n than just Lake Simcoe that have high concentrations of phosphorous in them. Almost half the \n phosphorous samples collected by CA’s and MOE between 1997 and 2007 were above the \n provincial objective. Approximately one hundred lakes, and twenty major rivers in Ontario could be \n classified as meso-eutrophic. Eleven of these rivers could be considered eutrophic. Evidence has \n shown that even the Great Lakes (Lake Erie in particular) are showing signs of cultural \n eutropication (i.e. massive blue green algae plumes are observed in satellite photo’s in the western \n portion of the lake). This indicates a need for a broader provincial phosphorous strategy (which \n could include water quality trading as part of a broad program) to address problems in other areas, \n and to prevent more lakes and rivers from becoming eutrophic.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.349955,"width":0.785747,"height":0.17703000000000002}},{"text":"The strengths of CAs to implement innovative watershed based programs are very evident across \n the province. For over sixty years Conservation Authorities have been working on watershed \n programs. The “Development, Interference and Alteration\" Regulations (Ontario Regulations 42/06 \n and 146/06 to 182/06) empower CA’s to regulate development and activities in or adjacent to river \n or stream valleys, Great Lakes and large inland lakes shorelines, watercourses, hazardous lands and \n wetlands. They complement municipal implementation of provincial policies under the Planning \n Act such as hazardous lands and wetlands. Development taking place on these lands may require \n permission from the CA to confirm that the control of flooding, erosion, dynamic beaches, pollution \n or the conservation of land are not affected. They also regulate the straightening, changing, \n diverting or interfering in any way with the existing channel of a river, creek, stream, watercourse \n or for changing or interfering in any way with a wetland.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.541621,"width":0.7860579999999999,"height":0.19445400000000002}},{"text":"CAs have delegated responsibilities to represent provincial interests regarding natural hazards \n encompassed by Section 3.1 of the Provincial Policy Statement, 2005 (PPS, 2005). These delegated \n responsibilities require CAs to review and provide comments on policy documents (Official Plans \n and comprehensive zoning by-laws) and applications submitted pursuant to the Planning Act as part \n of the Provincial One-Window Plan Review Service. In 2001, Conservation Ontario signed a \n Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of \n Municipal Affairs and Housing that defined the roles of and responsibilities of each agency with \n respect to delegated responsibilities for natural hazards.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.747076,"width":0.785048,"height":0.14218200000000003}},{"text":"P.O. Box 11, 120 Bayview Parkway Newmarket Ontario L3Y 4W3 \n Tel: (905) 895-0716 Fax: (905) 895-0751 Email: info@conservationontario.ca","bbox":{"left":0.214313,"top":0.91239,"width":0.566874,"height":0.03182499999999999}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.882156,"top":0.941015,"width":0.009785000000000044,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"www.conservationontario.ca","bbox":{"left":0.36549,"top":0.95996,"width":0.26439,"height":0.021645000000000025}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}