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Water Resources Management Study (WRMS) of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), NS

July 26, 2006            HRM's WRMS web page

Contents:

• Introduction
• Submission by us in response to HRM's call for submissions in year 2000
• Further submissions by us, the SWCSMH, in electronic format on the request of the HRM
• Formal comments by us on the HRM's WRMS Report
• HRM's Committee of the Whole Minutes, September 23, 2003
• HRM's staff submission to the Halifax Regional Council's Committe_of_the_Whole; September 23, 2003
• Our submissions to the Water Resource Management Strategy (WRMS), NS Dept. of Environment

Introduction:

Dillon Consulting Limited produced their Report in December 2002 (Ref.# 00-8283-9000).

The submission in PDF format by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH) in response to HRM's call for submissions in year 2000

Further submissions by us, the SWCSMH, in electronic format on the request of the HRM:

Note: Some of our submissions were around 50 pages long with extensive literature and export coefficients from around the world!

Formal comments in PDF format by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH) on the HRM's WRMS Report.

Note: The several exhibits noted in the PDF file above have not been included in it but the entire package was submitted to the HRM's Staff Steering Committee.

HRM's staff submission to the Halifax Regional Council's Committe_of_the_Whole; September 23, 2003:

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BACKGROUND

Staff is in the process of developing comprehensive and modern policies with respect to water resource issues in Halifax Regional Municipality. The project is a joint effort of Environmental Management Services and Regional Planning/Planning & Development Services and will harmonize the differing policies and regulations relative to the various aspects of wastewater and storm water management, including those related to the development of land. This report summarizes our findings and outlines recommendations and is further to the information report submitted to Regional Council on July 8, 2003.

By a motion of Regional Council on September 19, 2000, a consultant was engaged to develop a report to assist HRM in developing water resource management policies. This report was completed in December 2002 and was presented to the three Watershed Advisory Boards (WABs) in January 2003, as requested by Regional Council. The three WABs have provided written comments on the WRMS report and it's implementation. These comments are generally favorable and these, along with the consultant's report, were distributed to Council in an Information Report on July 8, 2003. The WABs' priority recommendations have been considered in development of the implementation plan.

The Executive Summary of the WRMS Report is attached to this report as Appendix A.

A list of the WRMS recommendations and staff action plan, entitled "Water Resource Management Project, Recommendations and Action Plan" is attached as Appendix B in PDF format. (Note: Appendix B of staff was 12-pages long but when we converted it into PDF format, it translated into 14 pages but the content is unaltered!)

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