Watershed Monitoring
NVCA Watershed Report Cards - A Summary of Watershed Health
NVCA creates two sets of watershed status reports, which are updated every five years.
| Provincial Watershed Report Cards Along with many of the 36 Conservation Authorities in Ontario, the NVCA produces a Watershed Report Card. This was designed by Conservation Authority staff under the guidance of Conservation Ontario in order to allow a province-wide snapshot of water quality, forest conditions, groundwater quality and wetlands based on a common set of measurements and criteria. These were launched for the first time during International Water Week in 2013. |
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Watershed and Subwatershed Health Checks
The NVCA began producing these reports in 2007, gradually adding to the library of reports available for the 9 subwatersheds and four other significant regions within the NVCA watershed. They provide a broad overview of forest, stream and wetland health and provide recommendations for the protection of healthy systems and restoration of degraded areas.
In 2013, these will be relaunched with the title "Health Check" to ensure a distinction between these and the provincial Watershed Report Cards. This is important because our Health Checks provide a more detailed review of stream health and stewardship and use a slightly different set of measures for health assessment and trend analysis.
The 2013 updates of these reports will be available in June. Until then, you are welcome to view previous reports on the following subwatersheds and other significant lakes, regions and features of our watershed: