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Town of Midland Budget Request 2018

Severn Sound Watershed

What is the Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA)?

• 2009 - Joint Municipal Service Board (Municipal Act s.202)

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GM reports to Board representing 8 Municipal members

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Midland is Treasurer municipality under the agreement

• Source Protection Authority (Ont. Clean Water Act, 2006)
• Community Based Mission

– To sustain environmental quality & ensure continued protection through implementing a legacy of wise stewardship of Severn Sound and its tributaries.

SSEA Activities in Town of Midland in 2017

Activity Town Cost Town Benefit Total Value Open water monitoring (3 stations) $0 $11,226 $44,857

• Env. Can. Community Stewardship Project

$0 $0 $226,800 SSEA Tree Planting $0 $4,693 $22,570 SSEA Tree Distribution1 $0 $318 $14,548 Little Lake Monitoring2 $3,000 $25,278 $25,278 Tributary monitoring (Wye R) $0 $2,191 $26,290 Stream temperature monitoring (Midland Harbour) $0 $667 $56,703 Source Water Protection (SWP Region, WHPAs, reporting for SS SPA, SWMIF Agt) $0 $25,122 $251,219 Risk Management Services3 $16,000 $16,000 $89,000 Nearshore Habitat Mapping Project $0 $14,858 $148,577 Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network $0 $96,594 $349,782 Invasive Species Program $7,000 $9,189 $47,255 SSEA Operation $57,548 $57,548 $553,831 Totals (“Total value” not including SSEA Operation) $83,548 $263,684 $1,302,879

1 in-kind support from the Town for tree distribution 2 Little Lake open lake monitoring $3,000 3 eligible expense under the SPMIF Agreement

2017 Town of Midland Activity Highlights

Community tree planting: Tiffin Pond 2017 Little Lake water quality monitoring Midland fishing derby Tiffin Pond phragmites removal Downloading precipitation data

• Open Water Sampling
• Open Water Temperature

Monitoring

• Midland water level gauge

improvements

• Little Lake Water Sampling
• Precipitation Monitoring
• Provincial Water Quality

Monitoring Network (PWQMN)

Field Monitoring

Midland Bay temperature monitoring WWTC weather monitor

20 40 60 80 100 120 140 May June July August September October Rainfall (mm)

2017 Monthly Rainfall - May to October WWTC

Little Lake sampling

Invasive Species

• Mapped 18 different invasive species
• Japanese knotweed and phragmites

most common

• Little Lake glossy buckthorn

management report

• Phragmites removal - Tiffin Pond

demonstration site

BEFORE: Tiffin Pond AFTER: Tiffin Pond Japanese knotweed

SSEA 2018 Request - Midland

• Operations Core Municipal

Funding - Midland share

– $63,862

• Little Lake - Water Quality

and zebra mussel monitoring

– $ 4,300

• Risk Management Services

– $16,000

• Year 2 Invasive Species

Coordinator for 2018

– $ 7,000

• Tree distribution program

– $0 (in-kind time from Town)

Water sampling

• Severn Sound

Water level monitoring Sorting trees for distribution

2018 NEW SSEA Work Plan Items

• Updated SSEA

Strategic Plan

– Consideration of climate change adaptation strategy – Broad consultation

• Citizen Science

– NGO partners

• Ex. Copeland Forest

Friends

– Community Environmental Monitoring Kits

Citizen science training Citizen science training

Thank you!

www.severnsound.ca Twitter: @SSEA_SSRAP

Photo: Andrew Mendler, Midland Mirror