Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Grey Bruce Health Unit
Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches releases 2015 newsletter to share progress of work protecting Lake Huron
Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches has announced the release of the 2015 newsletter highlighting some of the work underway to protect and improve water quality along Lake Huron’s southeast shore. The southeast shore is a largely rural area stretching from Sarnia to Tobermory.
This year, the partnership is conducting an online survey to find out what you think of the newsletter. People who respond to the survey before July 1 have a chance to win a stainless steel reusable water bottle. The survey and newsletter are available online at healthylakehuron.ca. Simply click ‘Summer 2015 Newsletter’ on the home page to read the newsletter and then take the survey. Previous newsletters can be found under the ‘Publications’ tab at the top of the home page. Print copies of the newsletter are also available at most local municipal offices or you may contact your local conservation authority.
Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches is a partnership of federal and provincial ministries, local government, local public health and conservation agencies, landowners and residents, and community groups. It is the former Lake Huron Southeast Shores Initiative. The Healthy Lake Huron partnership has published an annual newsletter since 2008.
“People who live near Lake Huron, people who visit the lake, and people who drink water that comes from the lake, all benefit from clean water and clean beaches,” said Tim Cumming, Past Chair of the Healthy Lake Huron Communications Committee. “The Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches partnership an example of many groups working together with a common goal. The newsletter offers people practical ways to help protect and improve Lake Huron water quality.”
The newsletter also shares how many volunteers, landowners, communities, as well as many government and non-government agencies are working together to make this happen. “The Lake Huron Southeast Shores Initiative started because people told governments that more had to be done for Lake Huron,” he said. “The newsletter is one of the ways local property owners and residents can find out about the work that is being done in response to that call and how to get involved.”
The content of the newsletter is available as individual articles. Simply visit healthylakehuron.ca and click on the What’s New tab to find the articles as HTML links. Click on ‘Publications’ and ‘2015 Summer Newsletter’ for a PDF version of the newsletter.
The 2015 newsletter includes articles about volunteers planting wetland vegetation, shrubs and trees at the Forest sewage lagoons; and the work of communities to protect Great Lakes watersheds, including Pine River, Garvey Creek-Glenn Drain, Lambton Shores, Main Bayfield and Bayfield North. Other highlights include recovery of the Piping Plover, an endangered bird species; plastic pollution in Lake Huron; the work of community members volunteering as citizen scientists; work to protect soil health during the 2015 International Year of Soils; the importance of cover crops; and the tenth year of projects by Huron County residents with support of the Huron County Clean Water Project. Still other articles share a new and local way to fight carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases; a safe swimming checklist; a climate change board game; a Lake Huron photo essay; and more.
“The range of articles in the newsletter tells me that the community is building a foundation of work to protect and improve Lake Huron,” says Cumming. “The newsletter offers some of the work that has been done, some of the work that is being done, and some of the work that needs to be done.”
Media Contact:
Tim Cumming
Communications Specialist
Ausable Bayfield Conservation and Past Chair of the Healthy Lake Huron Communications Committee
519-235-2610 or toll-free 1-888-286-2610
tcumming@abca.on.ca
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