WATER THEME Group 1

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WATER THEME Group 1

• Water quantity and quality is okhow to keep this
  way
• Water protection on Moraine, is not Moraine
  specific, b/c of dynamic water nature
• Timely implementation, Acts and protection plans
• Restrict transfer
• Local levels of stewardship programs wider
  perspective in decisions and activities

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WATER THEME Group 1

• Characteristics, some are not adequately
  understood
• Better understanding of carrying capacity of
  watershed
• Specific land use impacts, need better
  understanding
• Define relationship between surface and ground
  water

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WATER THEME Group 1

• Standardize of..
• Water is undervalued, enhance understanding of
  actual cost education, taxation, understanding
• Minimum water usage and fees
• Accurate user fees, fairness increase
  valuation, also temporary

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WATER THEME Group 1

• Inadequate understanding of water protection
• Water use reduction incentives private lands,
  enhanced and strengthened
• Workshops for landowners, locally
• Technical information needs to be understandable
  for public
• Strong public involvement of Water Act and
  watershed planning

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• What is happening successes
• Zonal approach to implementation of water
  protection on Moraine, no one size fits all
• Regionalizing water management systems
• Inadequate action being taken on water protection
  mechanisms already available infrastructure,
  remediation
• Enforce water quality legislation
• Synergize
• Public Education initiatives

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• Coordination
• Sustainable funding
• Federal needs to be involved and supportive
  (monitoring and funding)
• Needs to be convener function on ORM (Foundation)
• Information portal what others are doing on
  Moraine (Foundation?)
• Role of Municipalities and CA bottom up process
  with stewardship coordination with Universities
  and Colleges

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WATER THEME Group 2

• Involved NGOs, off moraine (no boundaries to
  water)
• Strategic partnerships more work to do, engage
  more groups
• Prov. and Federal need to increase enforcement,
  up front, clarity
• Public water is cheap need to conserve, and
  elevated in worth, understand its importance

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WATER THEME Group 2

• K-99 kids are key, but we all have a stake
• CA watershed management plans, funding,
  coordination
• International cooperation show leadership,
  coordination roles, delegate edu. and public
  awareness strategies
• Reaching towards converted, however need to get
  to others as well

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WATER THEME Group 2

• Key issues
• Monitoring consistency
• Coordination
• Different sources, benchmark, evaluate
• Education pressure on the Moraine, daily
  importance of resource
• Govt coordination who does what? Need sharing,
  caring, working together
• Policies and source water protection
  coordination funding, education

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WATER THEME Group 2

• Data base
• Watershed plans April 2007 need to be done, very
  few municipalities are here
• Stream health quality and quantity data, use by
  industries (agri. Aggregate)
• Clarity of headwaters
• Outreach programs success stories - share

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• Lack of staff resources
• Recommendations
• Full cost accounting
• Who pays and benefits
• Deadline for watershed planning (2009?)
• Harmonization of Plans and legislation
• Guidelines need to be done
• Public understanding and appreciation, value of
  water

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WATER THEME Group 3

• Data management problems retrieval, storage,
  high quality collection, and easier to obtain and
  understand
• Lack of data, esp. East
• Data compilation and analysis
• Research priorities
• Groundwater depletion concern and confusion

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WATER THEME Group 3

• Better control and management of water resources
  conservation (permits MOE)
• Municipal waste water and water practices
  better BMP, penalties, conservation practices,
  holistic across Moraine
• Water for what its worth and not commodity
• Surface water management

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WATER THEME Group 3

• Greater detail in hydrological buffers linkages
• Tax incentive programs
• Surface water pollution problems road salt
• Recognition of dams, on stream health, functions
  and health of ORM, importance for restoration for
  streams across Moraine
• Fill-transfer peat extraction, aggregate
  resources Act

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WATER THEME Group 3

• Lack of holistic approach, cohesive piece of work
  to address this
• Actions model development
• Improve models that explain and track, long term,
  depletion (sustainability)
• Regulatory tools (user pay tools, conservation
  practices, penalties)

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• Data sharing framework into discoverable and
  dispensable places so anyone can get at it
• Tools and guidelines for peat extraction and
  fill-transfer
• Management models, evaluation
• Landowners need to be included (on and off
  those who benefit from Moraine)
• NGOs, CA, Govt
• Also climate change
• Pumping rates pools vernal

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WATER THEME Group 4

• CONSISTENT policy for water, pos. and neg. side
  raised bar
• Stringent water policy leapfrogging over ORM
• Broader water policy needs to be connected thru
  review
• ENGOs, govt, other stakeholders involved

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WATER THEME Group 4

• True cost accounting, user pay schemes
• Prov. and private sector
• Education and training is important across
  spectrum young and adults, on and off Moraine
• Peel Water story regional govt should review
• Technical info is avaliable, needs to be
  translated

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WATER THEME Group 4

• Hydro geologists need to be involved
• Orange box hazardous waste disposal
• Monitoring and Modeling
• Wells, septic, riparian, point source
• Funding MORE! Research and monitoring and
  modeling
• Need for interim water report, for around 2009,
  roll up water info for use in planning and policy
  making, increase water science and systems,
  therefore more understanding among public and
  fill gaps

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WATER THEME Group 4

• 2014 Review