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Posted on March 13, 2009
The New Brunswick government will contribute $1.5 million to a new fund dedicated to maintaining the province's wetlands, Premier Shawn Graham announced yesterday.
The Wetlands Sustainability Fund will enable Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) to carry out ongoing maintenance of infrastructure on wetlands it maintains in New Brunswick. Currently, DUC has 371 projects in the province, covering a combined 20,539 hectares.
In New Brunswick, DUC will use capital and interest from the fund to maintain 217 water control structures, 59 fishways and 136 kilometres of dykes located primarily in the St. John River flood plain, the Northumberland [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009
Five communities in the Kings County, N.S. area will have better drinking water and wastewater treatment systems with funding from three levels of government.
More than $6 million under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund was announced on March 6.
The Municipality of Kings project includes upgrades to the wastewater treatment facility, which will benefit about 9,600 households and will be designed to accommodate future growth. The total cost of the project is $2,774,700, which will be funded equally by the federal and provincial governments, and the Municipality of Kings.
The Town of Wolfville's project includes [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2009
Defending champion Clearbrook Waterworks District, British Columbia, Canada won the title of World's Best Tap Water at the 19th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, known as the Academy Awards of water. Best municipal water in the United States was judged to be first-time winner, Hamilton, Ohio rated by one judge as "pleasantly sweet." Another British Columbia community, the Village of Montrose, won the silver medal while bronze was won by the town of Bath, the official municipality within Berkeley Springs.
Other Canadian winners:
Best Bottled Non Carbonated [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2009
The feds and the province of P.E.I. have announced eight new projects to improve and protect water resources and wetlands.
Federal funding of $397,280 for these projects will be made under the Canada-Prince Edward Island National Water Program (CPEINWP), which focuses on environmental training, soil and water conservation projects, research on nitrogen leaching and better identification of the province's wetlands.
The P.E.I. Department of Agriculture and the P.E.I. Department of Environment Energy and Forestry will provide $68,500 in in-kind support.
The projects are being funded under Tier Three of the CPEINWP. Tier Three projects [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2009
A Prince Edward Island provincial court judge has ordered the vessel BBC Nordland to pay a $15,000 penalty for illegally discharging a pollutant in Canadian waters.
On February 22, 2008, the BBC Nordland, a Gibraltar-registered General Dry Cargo vessel, that was docked at the Port of Summerside, P.E.I., spilled approximately 300 litres of hydraulic oil during offloading operations.
As a result of the investigation carried out by Transport Canada, charges under the Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and for Dangerous Chemicals of the Canada Shipping Act were laid against the vessel in Prince Edward Island provincial [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2009
In an effort to reduce its footprint, MillerCoors has awarded Fredericton-based ADI Systems Inc. a full design-build contract for a new ADI-MBR (membrane bioreactor) facility for its brewery near Elkton, VA. The new ADI-MBR facility is designed to treat effluent from two existing anaerobic reactors to meet new nitrogen and phosphorus discharge limits.
These new, stricter discharge limits are being imposed as part of the five-state effort to reduce nutrient loadings to Chesapeake Bay. The ADI-MBR will replace an existing conventional activated sludge system at the site.
The MBR system is a five-stage biological nutrient removal [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009
Residents of the town of Yarmouth and surrounding areas will soon have a more efficient wastewater treatment plant.
The province is investing $340,000 to upgrade the town's wastewater treatment system. The project includes supplying and installing equipment to remove residual chlorine from wastewater effluent as required by the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. The project will also involve installing a computerized monitoring and notification system and a back-up power generation unit.
"The town of Yarmouth has invested considerably in this system already," said Richard Hurlburt, Minister of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2009
Residents in New Glasgow, Stellarton, Trenton, Westville, and the Municipality of Pictou, Nova Scotia, will see improved wastewater treatment thanks to a shared investment by the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund.
Federal, provincial and municipal funding for two projects totaling $3,175,200 was announced yesterday in New Glasgow by Pat Dunn, Minister of Health Promotion and Protection, on behalf of Richard Hurlburt, Minister of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, and by Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, on behalf of John Baird, Minister of Transport [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009
Farmers and other groundwater users in the Annapolis Valley are being asked to take part in a study that will help to improve water-use planning.
The departments of Natural Resources, Environment, and Agriculture, as well as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture are working together to ensure groundwater is used in a sustainable manner.
The project received $46,200 in funding from the Canada-Nova Scotia Water Supply Expansion Program. The provincial government matched the funding support.
"Access to good-quality water is a key factor in agricultural production," said Agriculture Minister [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2008
The Town of La Scie, Newfoundland has received $314,000 through the 2008-09 Municipal Capital Works (MCW) program to remove creosote timber from the water supply intake area.
The MCW program fosters the development of cost-shared projects in a wide range of municipal infrastructure, including water and waste water treatment, roads, recreational facilities and fire equipment.
Through the 2008-09 program, $33.4 million will be spent on many infrastructure improvement projects province-wide. Under the program, the provincial government will contribute $28.9 million and the municipalities will contribute $4.5 million. Towns will also [...]
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