Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax

[Section-K-d]

Public Submissions: Routinely, we make submissions to various consultation processes of the federal, provincial and municipal governments and following are the more significant ones:

Minister's Task Force on Clean Water, N.S. Dept. of Environment: 2 detailed submissions, 1990-91.
Dartmouth City Council MPS hearings, 1991: Made presentation on the need for Lake Stewardship.
Dartmouth City Council, 1992: Written presentation asking for restoration of Settle lake, perhaps the most culturally eutrophic of any Metro lake (Council has not responded to date).
Dartmouth City Council, 1992-93: A written submission on the need for setting Lake Carrying Capacities, and prior to same to consult all Lake Stakeholders, not just `Appointees' (Council has not responded to date).
Planning Dept., City of Dartmouth, 1992: Promoting Lake Carrying Capacity concepts (no reply to date).
Planning Dept., City of Dartmouth, 1993: Request for setting Lake Carrying Capacities (Director of Planning expressed their inability to do so).
The Draft Nova Scotia Environment Act, N.S. Dept. of Environment: 15-20 submissions, most of them detailed, 1993-94.
The Municipal Reform Act-1994, Law Amendments Committee: Requested for inclusion of water quality initiatives.
Bill No. 115, An Act to Reform the Environmental Laws of the Province of Nova Scotia-1994, Law Amendments Committee: Made a detailed submission.
Halifax County Council, 1994, Dt. 4 MPS: Need for Lake Carrying Capacities.
N.S. Dept. of Env., Dec. 1994: Made a 1-hr presentation on Lake Management; meeting attended by the Water Resources Div., Policy & Planning Div., as well as by a rep from County Eng.
Halifax County Council, Jan. 1995, Dts. 1 & 3 MPS: Need to set Lake Carrying Capacities after the Dorset model, and provided the scientific guidelines.
N.S. Dept. of Env., March 1995: Made a 11/2-hr presentation on Lake Management and Lake Carrying Capacities; meeting well attended by reps from the Water Resources Div., Dy. Minister's office, County Eng. & Planning Depts., Bedford Planning Dept., Halifax City Council, and East Hants Eng. Dept.
The Clean Nova Scotia Foundation: Our rep made a written presentation on a Solid Waste Management Strategy for Nova Scotia, and used his expertise in aquatic toxicology to stress the problems associated with so-called `wet landfills'.
Halifax County PAC, 1995, Dt. 15, 18 & 19 MPS: Need to set Lake Carrying Capacities, the Dorset model, and provided the scientific guidelines.
Halifax County PAC, 1995, Dts. 14 & 17 MPS: Need to set Lake Carrying Capacities, the Dorset model, and provided international guidelines.
Halifax County Planning Dept., May 1995: Made a 2-hr presentation on the principles of Limnology and Lake Carrying Capacities.
Halifax Metro municipal amalgamation bill-1995, Law Amendments Committee: Made an impassioned plea to include provision of Lake Carrying Capacities and a staff position of either a Limnologist or a Certified Lake Manager.