Environment committee  We're perfect in our watershed.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We haven't got to that point. We have a staff, a well-trained staff, and we have computer modelling that we use to tell us when to pull logs. We work with all the cottage associations also. They're worried about water levels now, a lot of them for the wrong reasons. A lot of them

Environment committee  Number one on our agenda is education on buffer zones. The big thing we promote is that a buffer zone does not have to be a tree that's 10 feet high so that you can't see the water. A good buffer zone can be ground cover with good root systems. It could be a rock garden, even, if

Environment committee  I didn't go into detail on what was involved in those 80 recommendations, but the 80 topics that we had to address were nearshore habitats for fish. A lot of fish spawn on the nearshores. We're talking about the nearshore habitat. What type of habitat is growing on the nearshores

Environment committee  With the Bay of Quinte area, we used funding to do the studies, and we did find out.... Good agricultural practice knows that if they use...I think everybody thinks if you put five pounds on per acre, that's great, why not use ten and make it twice as good? Well, it doesn't wor

Environment committee  We're working on a project right now. At our office we have a fair-sized parking area that we want to redo in pervious pavement, and we want to use it as an example for developers. We can prove that using the pervious pavement, which is a lot more expensive, may negate the need f

Environment committee  That's one of the rules we have in place for the Bay of Quinte cleanup. We're working with the municipalities on that program, and we have funding from the Ministry of the Environment to encourage those programs.

Environment committee  I'm not a chemist. All I know is that it's not the good kind; it's quite toxic.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  The system that the Ministry of the Environment has put in place includes a series of waterproof barriers along the river and pipes that intercept any water that does get through and takes it back to the plant that takes the arsenic out. We're quite satisfied that they've done a

Environment committee  Yes, with respect to the incentive idea and the paying for phosphorus, there's been a lot of talk about agriculture. In my area, the agricultural community has been totally cooperative. They've spent millions of dollars on their own to create buffers. We discussed earlier one

Environment committee  The flow problem in all of the rivers in our watershed this year wasn't a big problem for the public. Last year and the year before it was a major problem, but it's all totally connected to our climate. In our case, we have 39 dams. Some of those dams are operated for low-flow a

Environment committee  In the Quinte area we're working with the municipalities. We are working with the planning staff trying to encourage master drainage plans. We are concerned about stormwater and runoff going into the Bay of Quinte and the pickup of phosphorus as it goes in. So I guess the answer

Environment committee  In the Quinte area, we don't have a lot of farm drains.