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Quinte Region
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The Bay of Quinte is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful areas of Lake Ontario. The shallow bay is vulnerable to pollution, but its warmer waters also support distinctive fish and wildlife populations. Sandy beaches create some of the most pleasurable swimming on the lake. The rough waters to the south of the Bay of Quinte caused many historic shipwrecks. Quinte is home to a number of small towns, the City of Belleville, and large industrial developments like cement kilns. Canadian Forces Base Trenton is located in the heart of the region.
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Belleville's pollution control plant is on track to recording fewer secondary bypasses of sewage into the Bay of Quinte.
Brad Wilson, the city's director of environmental and operational services, said there have been three secondary bypasses done since the start of the year, puts the plant on track to recording fewer than the average 11 to 13 bypasses usually done on a... (more)
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Drink
Fish
Quinte Region
Sewers & Urban Runoff
Swim
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The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has given the Youth Action Council $1,400 to improve the village's beach on the north side of the Trent River.
"This is just awesome news," said Tonya Smith, who has served as the council's supervisor since it was formed last March.
"We plan on doing some excavating and putting on new sand to make the beach... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
Swim
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Belleville residents driving or walking past the Moira River along Cannifton or Moira Street East just north of College Street Friday may have been surprised to see very low water levels.
Staff from Quinte Conservation has lowered the water level in the Moira River above the McLeod dam to perform repairs to the floodwall.
Quinte Conservation Water Resources Manager Byron... (more)
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Energy & Fossil Fuels
Other
Quinte Region
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A coalition opposed to a proposed new "eco-friendly" landfill beside the Richmond Landfill, near Napanee, has petitioned Ontario's Ministry of the Environment to reject the landfill company's application for the dump.
A recent environmental assessment process was filed by Waste Management with regard to the potential dump site.
But the group, consisting of members of... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Environmental Law
Quinte Region
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Hastings – The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has given the Youth Action Council $1,400 to improve the village's beach on the north side of the Trent River.
"This is just awesome news," said Tonya Smith, who has served as the council's supervisor since it was formed last March.
"We plan on doing some excavating and putting on new sand to make... (more)
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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
Swim
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Madoc — A small community group is looking to reinvigorate the Moira Lake beach and boat launch.
The Moira Lake boat launch improvement committee, formed last October, has been looking for public input on improving slightly more than six acres of land in and around the boat launch south of the village
The Madoc Kiwanis Club gave the beach off Highway 62 an overhaul in... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Quinte Region
Swim
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PRESQU’ILE, ONT.—They came for the swamp, and stayed for the beach.
“We wanted to show the boys a little nature,” says Lily Gregorian, who was visiting Presqu’ile Provincial Park recently with husband Greg and their two sons.
So last summer, they hopped in their minivan and drove from their North York home to Presqu’ile to hike the boardwalk through the... (more)
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Quinte Region
Swim
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Comment Period: 30 days: submissions may be made between July 19, 2010 and August 18, 2010.
This application is for an amendment to the existing Certificate of Approval (Waste Disposal Site) No. A371203 issued to Waste Management of Canada Corporation.
The Certificate is for the use and operation of a 16.2 hectare waste disposal site within a total site area of 138... (more)
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Drink
Environmental Law
Fish
Quinte Region
Waste Management
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The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan (BQ-RAP) will be pumping extra dollars into its efforts to have the bay's status changed from an internationally-recognized pollution hotspot.
Experts behind the efforts to transform the waterway into a pollutant-free atmosphere had set an ambitious goal, to rid the bay of some of the pollutants that garnered it an International Joint... (more)
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Fish
Quinte Region
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