Les Amis du Village Gagnon ravivent leur parc !
Un des projets qui a vu le jour cette année au Parc du Village Gagnon est la croix de chemin, afin de commémorer le patrimoine du village d’antan. À l’avant, on retrouve Edgar Pommainville, Raymond Baker, Cécile Baker, Jeanne Dazé, Antoinette Martin, Réjean Pommainville, Denis Pommainville et à l’arrière, Raymond Martin et Roger Pommainville.
Close to $1 million is going into a new project in Eastern Ontario, to help farmers in the region with water management needs for their lands.
The South Nation Conservation Authority (SNC) is taking the lead in developing a hydro geologic model that will provide farmers in the South Nation River watershed region with up-to-date information on weather and water conditions that may affect their operations. The federal Ministry of Agriculture and AgriFood is providing a $997,654 investment in the SNC’s project, which will use a Canadiandesigned hydrologic simulator which predicts the movement of water on and through the ground.
“Our government recognizes that Canadian farmers face risk every day in managing their businesses,” said Francis Drouin, MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, during the Aug. 23 news conference announcement of the project in Winchester. “This investment is all about giving farmers the tools they need to adjust their farms to a changing climate. Helping farmers be better informed in making their water management decisions is good for the sector’s sustainable growth, good for farmers’ bottom lines, and good for the Canadian economy.”
The 15-month project will create an integrated ground-water-surface water forecasting model for the South Nation River watershed. The project will use the HydroGeoSphere, a piece of Canadian technology, as part of the analysis and forecasting system that will provide SNC technicians with real-time information on surface and subsurface water conditions to pass on to farmers, and also aid the SNC with its flood condition monitoring and forecasting for the watershed region.