Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund - Funded Projects


Round 6 Funded Projects

Project Name: Manitoba Wetland Restoration Project

Project Recipient: Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation

Environment Canada Contribution: $720,000

Description: The project will implement a landowner partnership program to restore 648 hectares of drained wetlands across three watersheds in southwestern Manitoba, and reduce phosphorus loads entering Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Pelly's Lake Watershed Management Area

Project Recipient: La Salle-Redboine Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $125,000

Description: This project will build water retention structures and protect wetlands and riverbanks to reduce spring runoff, and restrict phosphorus loading over 630 acres of land in the La Salle-Redboine area.


Project Name: Cattail and Novel Biomass: Nutrient Capture and Reclamation Turning a Waste/Pollution Stream into an Input for a Sustainable Manitoba Bio-Economy

Project Recipient: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Environment Canada Contribution: $155,000

Description: This project will demonstrate the environmental and economic benefits of harvesting cattails to capture and reclaim phosphorus that would otherwise enter Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Establishment of Pilot Sites for Innovative Surface Water and Nutrient Management Initiatives on Farms

Project Recipient: Manitoba Conservation Districts Association

Environment Canada Contribution: $401,074

Description: This project will investigate various beneficial management practices for retaining and re-using runoff water to benefit agriculture, and prevent the release of nutrients downstream into Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Wetland Restoration (Two Year Program) in the Assiniboine River Watershed

Project Recipient: Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $230,000

Description: This project will work with landowners in the Assiniboine Watershed to develop a monetary value for restoring previously drained wetlands. The goal is to restore up to 150 wetlands, over 61 hectares, with a total possible phosphorus load reduction of 1,215 kg per year.


Project Name: Pipestone Phosphorus Reduction Program: Implementation and Measuring Efficacy of Beneficial Management Practices

Project Recipient: Lower Souris Watershed Committee Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $138,000

Description: This project will educate local producers on beneficial management practices and reduce nutrients entering Lake Winnipeg by restoring 25 previously drained wetlands, and converting 700 acres of cropland to perennial forage in the Lower Souris Watershed.


Project Name: Niverville Lagoon System: The Investigation of Alternative Approaches for Bio-Remediation

Project Recipient: Town of Niverville

Environment Canada Contribution: $159,330

Description: The project will investigate and evaluate the feasibility of remediating biosolids (sludge) in decommissioned wastewater lagoons through in situ treatment using phyto- and bio-remediation methods.


Project Name: Successful Initiation of Wetland Restoration Landowner Incentive Program

Project Recipient: Upper Souris Watershed Association Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $87,000

Description: The project will restore up to 20 significant wetlands near the Souris River, and develop contracts with local landowners to ensure these areas are protected over the next 10 years.


Project Name: Earthen Dam for Water Storage and Erosion Control

Project Recipient: Swan Lake Watershed Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $53,000

Description: This project will oversee the construction of two earthen dams that will reduce nutrients entering Lake Winnipeg by retaining 800 hectares of overland surface water in the Swan Lake Watershed.


Project Name: Assiniboine Basin Municipal Point Source Assessment and Reduction Initiative

Project Recipient: Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $28,163

Description: This project will work with local government and community members to assess 32 wastewater sites, demonstrate methods to potentially divert overland surface water from entering Lake Winnipeg, and re-use this nutrient laden water for economic growth in the region.


Project Name: Whitemud Watershed Surface Water Storage Program

Project Recipient: Whitemud Watershed Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $30,000

Description: The project will construct three temporary water storage projects along the Whitemud River, thereby creating or enhancing up to 100 acres of previously drained wetlands.


Project Name: Lake Friendly Practices and Actions - Do What Matters

Project Recipient: South Basin Mayors and Reeves Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $210,000

Description: The project will work to improve water quality in Lake Winnipeg by building public awareness and encourage lake friendly behaviour that will enhance environmental, economic, and societal health within the Lake Winnipeg Watershed.


Project Name: Lake of the Woods Discovery Centre Model Shoreline

Project Recipient: Lake of the Woods Development Commission

Environment Canada Contribution: $24,636

Description: This project will construct a 265 meter interactive shoreline that will educate and empower the public to prevent the negative impacts of nutrient loading by making informed consumer choices and taking positive individual actions to reduce nutrients entering the Lake of the Woods.


Project Name: Development of a Risk Indicator to Identify Soils Prone to Phosphorus Release under Prolonged Flooding

Project Recipient: University of Winnipeg (Dr. Kumaragamage)

Environment Canada Contribution: $109,200

Description: This project will identify risk indicators for soils that are prone to releasing large quantities of phosphorus to surface runoff water entering Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba’s Interlake and Red River Basin.


Project Name: Development of a Simulation Tool to Identify Priority Areas for Wetland Conservation and Restoration

Project Recipient: University of Manitoba (Dr. Ali)

Environment Canada Contribution: $53,475

Description: The project will develop a simulation tool that will allow researchers to examine and measure the potential positive impacts of various methods to restore and conserve wetlands across various landscapes, and determine priority areas for future restoration activities.


Project Name: Management of Sediments in Surface Waterways to Reduce Phosphorus Loading in Lake Winnipeg

Project Recipient: University of Manitoba (Dr. Lobb)

Environment Canada Contribution: $38,143

Description: This research project will identify areas of high nutrient concentrations within the Red River Basin and Winnipeg River Basin, and provide the recommendations for management practices that will help prevent and reduce nutrients entering these tributaries of Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Designing and Managing Riparian Areas to Filter Phosphorus and Sediment

Project Recipient: University of Northern British Columbia

Environment Canada Contribution: $147,500

Description: This project will enhance the understanding of how phosphorus and other agricultural sediments filter into waterways, and work with land owners to develop riverbank buffer zones that more effectively prevent nutrient runoff.


Project Name: Quantification of the Internal Phosphorus Load in Lake Winnipeg to Improve Phosphorus Budgets

Project Recipient: Freshwater Research

Environment Canada Contribution: $28,000

Description: This project will examine how phosphorus within Lake Winnipeg itself can be measured and assessed to assist with decisions concerning future nutrient management.


Round 5 Funded Projects

Project Name: The Forks Riparian Preserve

Project Recipient: Forks Renewal Corporation

Environment Canada Contribution: $40,000

Status: Completed

Description: Project leaders with the Forks Renewal Corporation are helping to improve the quality of water entering Lake Winnipeg by restoring a riverbank habitat on approximately two acres along the banks of the Assiniboine River at the Forks Historic site in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


Project Name: Pembina and Long River Riparian Enhancement Program

Project Recipient: Turtle Mountain Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $20,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Turtle Mountain Conservation District is encouraging land managers along Manitoba’s Pembina River and Long River to implement agricultural practices that will benefit water quality and improve local riverbank integrity. Some of these beneficial agricultural management practices include restrictive cattle fencing and remote watering systems for cattle and the re-establishment of riverbank vegetation as a “buffer” zone to prevent erosion.


Project Name: Peguis First Nation Sustainable Cattle Management Project

Project Recipient: Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)

Environment Canada Contribution: $15,000

Status: Completed

Description: To improve water quality in the Peguis First Nation, the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) is working with a community producer to create a new management system designed to more effectively spread cattle manure. The result will be greater agricultural productivity, reduced overland runoff and fewer nutrients entering the local watershed. CIER is also providing guidance to help the producer to reconstruct farm operations with techniques such as cattle rotation, restrictive fencing and other beneficial agricultural management practices.


Project Name: Innovative Process for Enhanced Phosphorus Recovery from Sludge

Project Recipient: University of Manitoba (Dr. Jan Oleszkiewicz)

Environment Canada Contribution: $26,000

Status: Completed

Description: The University of Manitoba is conducting new research on the potential use of water treatment reactors to recover phosphorus from wastewater sludge. The results of this innovative study will be tested in a pilot experiment at the City of Winnipeg’s South End wastewater treatment plant.


Project Name: Riparian Enhancement Initiative

Project Recipient: Whitemud Watershed Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $20,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Whitemud Watershed Conservation District is protecting Lake Winnipeg water quality by enhancing the health, longevity, and effectiveness of riverbank buffer zones along the Whitemud River. Project leaders are constructing restrictive fencing to keep cattle from damaging the riverbank and polluting the water, re-establishing riverbank buffer zones with natural materials and native plants, and working with landowners to ensure future protection of the riverbank zone and its water quality.


Project Name: Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping of Foreshore Areas of Lake Winnipeg’s South Basin

Project Recipient: Lake Winnipeg Foundation

Environment Canada Contribution: $107,450

Status: Completed

Description: Foreshore areas are often significantly impacted by human activities and play a key role in the health and vitality of Lake Winnipeg. The Lake Winnipeg Foundation is gathering aerial photos and field research on ecosystems along the south basin of Lake Winnipeg’s foreshore. This information will provide decision makers, planners, developers, landowners, and government agencies with the tools they need to make sustainable shoreline use decisions.


Project Name: Effective Use of Riparian Zones to Filter Sediments and Phosphorus

Project Recipient: University of Manitoba (Dr. David A. Lobb)

Environment Canada Contribution: $99,600

Status: Completed

Description: The University of Manitoba will undertake a comprehensive study on the use of riparian areas as filters for sediment and phosphorus that enter waterways from agricultural land. Data from previous studies in the Lake Winnipeg basin are being analyzed and enhanced through continued field research. The final results will provide decision-makers with the information they need to determine the future use of riverbank areas in preventing nutrients from entering Lake Winnipeg and its watershed.


Project Name: Nutrient Reduction on Continuous Cropped Erodible Soils

Project Recipient: Swan Lake Watershed Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Swan Lake Watershed Conservation District (SLWCD) is working with land owners in southwest Manitoba to prevent topsoil loss and the negative impacts it has on groundwater quality. Together, the SLWCD and landowners are constructing flow-reduction waterways that will re-establish natural vegetated areas in cropland that is vulnerable to erosion and soil loss.


Project Name: Wetland Restoration Preservation Initiative

Project Recipient: East Interlake Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $26,000

Status: Completed

Description: The East Interlake Conservation District (EICD) is working with landowners in locations at risk of wetland loss to encourage the establishment of conservation agreements with EICD and the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation. These agreements will protect this land from future development and prevent further agricultural nutrients from entering Lake Winnipeg at these sites.


Round 4 Funded Projects

Project Name: Establishing a Process for a Wetland Vegetation Rehabilitation and Management program focused on Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea): A Parkland Mews Case Study

Project Recipient: The University of Manitoba

Environment Canada Contribution: $13,000

Status: Completed

Description: The University of Manitoba is conducting research that will minimize knowledge gaps in the control of the invasive species, Reed Canarygrass. Research results will examine the effectiveness of constructed wetland cells to prevent nutrient loads and will determine the connection between increased nitrogen and phosphorus loads and Reed Canarygrass.


Project Name: Beaver Creek Water Retention Project

Project Recipient: Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $4,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District is working with partners to create a dam that will reduce local seasonal flooding and nutrient runoff in the Beaver Creek watershed. The dam will allow water to be captured in early spring and slowly filter into surrounding soils to recharge local ground water and increase flow to important fish habitat downstream.


Project Name: Sustainable Nutrient Removal and Recovery from Wastewater

Project Recipient: The University of Manitoba

Environment Canada Contribution: $36,000

Status: Completed

Description: The University of Manitoba is developing a method for treating municipal wastewater through an innovative biological process that reduces nutrient loads to Lake Winnipeg while allowing for the recovery of phosphorus - a valuable economic resource. The results of this project will be used to carry out a pilot study at the City of Winnipeg’s South End wastewater treatment plant.


Project Name: Nutrient Reduction and Habitat Rehabilitation Project

Project Recipient: West Interlake Watershed Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $12,500

Status: Completed

Description: The West Interlake Watershed Conservation District is improving local water quality by eliminating cattle access along three creeks through the installation of exclusion fencing, off-site watering systems and cattle crossings, and restoring riverbank vegetation areas.


Project Name: Enhanced Removal of Nutrients, Organic Micropollutants and Toxicity from Sewage Lagoons and Waters of Morden and Winkler by Manipulative Constructed Wetland Microcosms

Project Recipient: The University of Winnipeg

Environment Canada Contribution: $148,760

Status: Completed

Description: The University of Winnipeg is researching the benefits of using constructed wetlands to remove nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and other toxic substances from rural waste waters.


Project Name: Prevent Livestock Nutrient Runoff into the Souris River

Project Recipient: Assiniboine Hills Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $12,300

Status: Completed

Description: The Assiniboine Hills Conservation District is setting up fencing and alternative wintering sites for cattle as well as portable wind breaks and swath grazing along the Souris River. These beneficial management practices are significantly reducing the loading of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen into this tributary of Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Lake of the Woods Water Quality Improvement Program

Project Recipient: Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resource Council Inc

Environment Canada Contribution: $12,050

Status: Completed

Description: The Anishinaabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resource Council and partners are identifying and preventing sources of nutrient runoff to the Lake of the Woods. In addition to analyzing and prioritizing sites for future water quality improvements, project leaders are educating the local community on how residents can help to improve local water quality.


Project Name: Assessing the Relationship between Internal Ferrous Iron Loading and Cyanobacteria Bloom Formation in Lake Winnipeg

Project Recipient: Faculty of Environmental Studies – York University

Environment Canada Contribution: $24,800

Status: Completed

Description: York University is researching how loading rates and quantities of internal ferrous iron and other sediments can help predict the formation of cyanobacterial algae blooms within Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Dog River Constructed Wetland Lagoon System

Project Recipient: Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards and partners are creating a wetland lagoon system that will restore native plant communities and provide a healthier aquatic ecosystem downstream.


Round 3 Funded Projects

Project Name: Down the Drain - A Demonstration Landscape; Using Plants and Natural Systems to Clean Our Water

Project Recipient: Rivers West Red River Corridor Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $46,014

Status: Completed

Description: Rivers West Red River Corridor Inc. and partners are designing and constructing a “rain garden” or bioretention system that filters storm runoff using landscaping similar to that found in forest ecosystems. The project is also encouraging the community and local schools to participate in the project and learn more about water quality challenges facing Lake Winnipeg


Project Name: Pembina River Watershed – Integrated Watershed Management Plan

Project Recipient: Pembina Valley Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Pembina Valley Conservation District is engaging landowners near Rock Lake and Killarney Lake to reduce nutrient loads and shoreline erosion by restricting cattle access to waterways leading into Lake Winnipeg. In addition, a water retention dam is being constructed above an eroding gully close to Rock Lake, reducing sediment runoff in drinking water sources and larger waterways entering Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Lake Friendly Campaign

Project Recipient: Lake Winnipeg South Basin Mayors and Reeves

Environment Canada Contribution: $241,520

Status: Completed

Description: The Lake Winnipeg South Basin Mayors and Reeves are reducing nutrient contributions to Lake Winnipeg by informing and educating consumers about products that are the best environmental choice for Lake Winnipeg. The project’s “It’s Lake Friendly” labelling campaign identifies products that are better environmental choices for reducing nutrients to Lake Winnipeg.


Project Name: Nutrient Management through Livestock Management

Project Recipient: Assiniboine Hills Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $22,500

Status: Completed

Description: The Assiniboine Hills Conservation District is working with landowners and cattle operators to develop three riverbank management sites that are reducing nutrient flows to Lake Winnipeg through practices such as: fencing to restrict livestock creek access, alternative watering and overwintering sites located away from the riverbank.


Project Name: Lake Wahtopanah Nutrient Reduction Project

Project Recipient: Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District and landowners are working together to reduce phosphorus loads to Lake Winnipeg by identifying and restoring primary shoreline areas along Lake Wahtopanah. They are improving water quality in these areas through beneficial management practices such as planting riparian buffers zones and grassed waterways, installing offsite watering systems, and constructing retention ponds.


Project Name: Upper Oak River Non-Point Source Nutrient Reduction Project

Project Recipient: Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District and landowners are reducing phosphorus loads to Lake Winnipeg by identifying and restoring primary shoreline areas along the Upper Oak River sub-watershed. They are also re-establishing perennial cover in these areas to reduce erosion and runoff sediment, reduce nutrient loads to Lake Winnipeg and benefit local aquatic ecosystems.


Project Name: Thunder and Silver Creeks Surface Water Management Project

Project Recipient: Birdtail Assiniboine Water Planning Authority

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: The Birdtail Assiniboine Water Planning Authority is working with local landowners to select priority restoration areas along Thunder Creek and Silver Creek. Through beneficial management practices such as reconstructing wetlands, building water retention ponds and developing in-stream erosion structures, their efforts are limiting nutrient loads and reducing the impacts of local flooding.


Project Name: Paleolimnological Determination of Water Quality Change in Lake Winnipeg for Use as Management and Remediation Goals

Project Recipient: Dr. Peter Leavitt, University of Regina

Environment Canada Contribution: $126,162.50

Status: Completed

Description: Seven researchers from four universities are working together to create a long-term record of historical water quality changes within the north basin of Lake Winnipeg. This research is documenting past trends and recent changes such as increases in potentially toxic cyanobacteria and changes in the lakes nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon levels. This research will help decision-makers to set ecologically-relevant goals for nutrient reduction and the future management and protection of Lake Winnipeg.


Round 2 Funded Projects

Project Name: The Sustainability of Municipal Wastewater Irrigation in the Interlake Region of Manitoba as a Means of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Abatement for Lake Winnipeg

Project Recipient: East Interlake Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $6,257

Status: Completed

Description: Wastewater irrigation, as an alternative to discharging wastewater directly to waterways leading to Lake Winnipeg, was assessed. The project involved three short-term field demonstrations of wastewater irrigation, municipal/town council focus groups on wastewater irrigation and a local resident survey to assess perceptions on wastewater re-use within their communities.


Project Name: Morden’s Community Lead Environmental Action on Nutrient Elimination and Removal (CLEANER) in Dead Horse Creek

Project Recipient: University of Winnipeg

Environment Canada Contribution: $109,372

Status: Completed

Description: This extensive water sampling and analysis program is identifying and monitoring sources of phosphorous and nitrogen along Dead Horse Creek, Plum River and the Red River near Morden, Manitoba. University undergraduate and high school students will contribute research products and practices to potentially reduce phosphorous and nitrogen in these waterways. Students will also lead community-based social marketing efforts to encourage Morden area residents to deposit less phosphorous and nitrogen in the town’s storm and sanitary wastewater systems.


Project Name: Moose Mountain Creek Phosphorous Reduction Project

Project Recipient: Cornerstone Regional Economic Development Authority

Environment Canada Contribution: $37,250

Status: Completed

Description: Beneficial management practices (BMPs) that reduce agricultural phosphorous loads and improve water quality are being promoted. Perennial forage seeding, exclusion fencing, portable windbreaks and portable water systems are all improving water quality. Stewardship agreements are engaging landowners to convert cropland to perennial forage, restore wetlands and improve both winter site and riparian zone management. BMPs are being promoted across the watershed through outreach activities such as field demonstration days, public newsletters and on-site farm visits by technicians.


Round 1 Funded Projects

Project Name: Achieving Successful Wetland Restoration in the Assiniboine River Watershed

Project Recipient: Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $139,400

Status: Completed

Description: Source water quality in the Assiniboine River and its tributaries will be improved. Lake Winnipeg will benefit from better downstream water quality.


Project Name: Advancing Netley-Libau Marsh Restoration Efforts

Project Recipient: International Institute for Sustainable Development

Environment Canada Contribution: $44,000

Status: Completed

Description: The project will promote the nutrient reduction benefits of marshland restoration to community stakeholders. This project expands on the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Netley-Libau Marsh Research.


Project Name: Building Capacity for Ecological Infrastructure Investments in the Red River Basin

Project Recipient: Red River Basin Commission

Environment Canada Contribution: $55,000

Status: Completed

Description: Canadian municipalities and counties in the U.S. discussed costs and benefits of restoring natural environments to improve interjurisdictional water quality.


Project Name: Development of a Model/Experimental Watershed Representative of the Manitoba Prairie Pothole Region

Project Recipient: Ducks Unlimited Canada

Environment Canada Contribution: $391,464

Status: Completed

Description: Ducks Unlimited and partners will establish a watershed monitoring network and water quality modeling that will be used to determine how changes in land use affect water quality. Wetlands will also be restored and monitored as part of this project.


Project Name: Development of a Preliminary Total Phosphorus Budget and Water Quality Modeling for Lake of the Woods

Project Recipient: Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation

Environment Canada Contribution: $135,254

Status: Completed

Description: A phosphorous budget and water quality modeling are being developed to assist decision-making for phosphorous management in the Lake and its watershed. The Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation and partners are collaborating on this project.


Project Name: Icelandic River and Washow Bay Creek Non-Point Source Nutrient Abatement Program

Project Recipient: East Interlake Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: Agricultural nutrient runoff will be reduced to the Icelandic River and Washow Bay Creek through the use of fencing, alternate watering sources for cattle and riverbank vegetation zones.


Project Name: Meewasin Valley Authority Riparian Restoration

Project Recipient: Meewasin Valley Authority

Environment Canada Contribution: $21,608

Status: Completed

Description: Water quality in the South Saskatchewan River and Lake Winnipeg has improved by restoring natural vegetation to damaged shore lands and by educating the public on the importance of riparian zones in river ecology.


Project Name: Modeling Water Quality in the South Basin of Lake Manitoba

Project Recipient: University of Manitoba

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: Understanding of Lake Manitoba water quality has been improved by this study, which also provides a basis for evaluating nitrogen and phosphorous reduction efforts. This research could also be used to measure the impact of Lake Winnipeg stewardship initiatives.


Project Name: Qu’Appelle River Water Quality Mitigation Project

Project Recipient: Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $4,300

Status: Completed

Description: Agricultural nutrient runoff has been reduced to a seasonal oxbow lake in the Upper Assiniboine River through the use of fencing, alternate watering sources for cattle and riverbank vegetation zones


Project Name: Seine River Riparian Enhancement Program

Project Recipient: Seine-Rat River Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: Agricultural nutrient runoff to the Seine River has been reduced through the use of fencing, alternate watering sources for cattle and riverbank vegetation zones.


Project Name: Souris River Riparian Enhancement Program

Project Recipient: Turtle Mountain Conservation District

Environment Canada Contribution: $25,000

Status: Completed

Description: Agricultural nutrient runoff to the Souris River has been reduced through the use of fencing, alternate watering sources for cattle and riverbank vegetation zones.


Project Name: Wastewater Pond Systems in Cold Climates

Project Recipient: Spectrum Scientific Inc.

Environment Canada Contribution: $132,767

Status: Completed

Description: A wastewater pond system will be adapted to Manitoba’s climate using a modified greenhouse structure.