OPIRG Guelph, with its partner the City of Guelph, is the proud recipient of an award through the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change’s Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund. The Speed River Project’s latest phase, ‘Local Community Engagement in Riparian Enhancement at the Speed and Eramosa Riverlands’ was successful in obtaining just over eighteen thousand ($18,000) dollars to purchase trees, other plants, equipment, and trail signs for areas selected under the project’s mandate.
The Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund provides grants to community groups and organizations to help protect the ecological health of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basin. The GLGCF supports projects that help: protect habitat and species, clean up a beach or shoreline, manage invasive species, and increase climate change resilience restoring riparian zones to help manage the flow of stormwater runoff.
This is the third successful application put forward by OPIRG and the City to sustain and maintain the health of the Speed and Eramosa Rivers.
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Contact:
Kiran Bhattarai, Speed River Project Coordinator
speedriver@opirgguelph.org
519.824.2091