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.
Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee
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Land Use Monitoring
Land use is an important factor in the health of the Kennebecasis Watershed. What happens in and around the water often has an impact on the water quality and aquatic habitat conditions. With this in mind the KWRC became very involved in land use planning initiatives of Regional Service Commission 8 (formerly the Royal District Planning Commission) and the municipalities with in our watershed. Whenever possible we try to ensure that land use changes have little to no impact on our waterways.
