Sherbrooke boosts environment teams

Sherbrooke’s environmental Green Patrol resumes activity for its 15th summer season this week. During the summer, six students in education or bio-ecology will walk through city streets providing advice and information to the public on a number of environmental issues.

"This year we’re promoting the importance of maintaining taller lawns and securing plastic garbage bags before putting them in the rolling bin,” says Environment Committee Chair Christine Ouellet. “Our Green Patrol can also answer questions from the public about shorelines, healthy lawns and waste sorting."

New in 2017

In addition, the City of Sherbrooke is introducing an innovative water squad, made up of two students, which wears the same colors as the green patrol and is tasked with assuring compliance with regulations on the external use of water.

"In Sherbrooke, we have one of the best records in Québec in terms of saving drinking water and it is essential that citizens continue their good work," said Ouellet.

In Sherbrooke, watering lawns is permitted two evenings a week, on Sundays and Wednesdays between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. The water squad will actively advise citizens about the various aspects of the regulation and will have the power to issue offense notices to recalcitrant citizens under the existing regulation.

Information is available at sherbrooke.ca/patrouilleverte and at sherbrooke.ca/arrosage. Pictured on the right: Sherbrooke’s Green Patrol and eater squad are ready and eager to help citizens navigate the sometimes complicated rules around waste disposal and water usage. From left to right, Isadora Tremblay, Philippe Brown, Annie Marier, Simon Laporte, Christine Ouellet, Audrey Hamel-