Stabilized Fording Sites
Since crop and pasture lands often straddle watercourses, providing safe crossings for livestock and equipment with reduced potential for negative water quality effects is critical. Additionally, watering livestock at rivers is often the only practical option for agricultural producers. The KWRC has used stable fording sites as both watering locations for livestock as well as crossings for farm equipment. The approaches are properly aligned and hardened, and the stream bottom is stabilized with hard rock to prevent erosion and rutting. Since 1994 the KWRC has installed 85 stabilized fording sites in the watershed.
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Consultations
Often time people call on us to inquire about activities going on in the watershed. We do our best to provide them with the proper information or help them find it for themselves. Our input is often sought out for small and large projects that could have a positive or negative impact on our watershed. One of the more important topics that we consult on, are projects requiring an
Our feed back on such projects is intended to ensure that proponents make every effort to have little to no impact on our watershed when carrying out their work. We also provide input on policies such as our “No Kill” zone or the provincial "Land and Water Framework” and this effort allows us to create stronger partnerships, improve communication with government, and improve watershed management.