Water News - Some interesting information/articles regarding the Blue/Green Algae problem in North Hatley and areas of  Quebec.

According to Michel Clairoux, President of the Massawippi Water Protection, the Parc Regional Massawippi has just hired a permanent employee Michel Bélanger.  

Monday June 4th, the LMWPA will have a press conference at Ste-Elisabeth church at 10:00 am (Salle Lucien Vachon). We will present our summer projects including a publicity campain on cyanobacteria awareness. Will will have close to 100 posters (36 X 24) that will be placed around the lake next week. I will send you the images of the posters after Monday. We are looking for volunteers that will accept to have the posters placed on their property for the summer.

On thing we are asking  the Parc Regional is to work with the MRC of Coaticook and Memphremagog and to do an impact study of all the Tomifobia Niger Rivers. It is the same idea that the Tecknica study has in lake Brome.

Michel Clairoux, MD, FRCPC

Update from Michel Clairoux after Monday's meeting:

My association held a press conference on Monday, it went very well, we had a lot of media coverage. We presented our summer projects which are aimed at the prevention of cyanobacteria.

One part of our projects is to place posters around the lake area. You will find examples of our 4 posters. They come in 2 dimensions 18" X 36" and 24" X 48".  We hope to create a major visual impact and awareness on the cyanobacteria problem.

Could you put them on the Club website and ask club members if they can accept to have one poster placed on the property particularly on Magog Road. The association will be in charge of placing them and removing them at the end of August.

All municipalities, except North Hatley, have accepted that we place them on utility poles. North Hatley is for the posters idea but would not let us use utility poles.

Please contact Michel (819-842-2722) if you are willing to have one of the posters placed on your property for the summer.  We all need to be part of the solution.  Here are the posters, take your pick or take all four.  Thank you for your support.