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Middle Rideau Subwatershed Report 2015

RIDEAU-SMITHS FALLS CATCHMENT

 

The RVCA produces individual reports for ten catchments about environmental conditions in the Middle Rideau subwatershed using data collected and analysed by the RVCA through its watershed monitoring and land cover classification programs every six years.

This information is used to better understand the effects of human activity on our water resources, allows us to better track environmental change over time and helps focus watershed management actions where they are needed the most to help sustain the ecosystem services (cultural, aesthetic and recreational values; provisioning of food, fuel and clean water; regulation of erosion/natural hazard protection and water purification; supporting nutrient/water cycling and habitat provision) provided by the catchment’s lands and forests and waters (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005).

The following pages of this report are a compilation of that work and contain information on surface water quality, riparian conditions, land cover, stewardship activity and hazard land and water resources protection.