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Damascus Conservation Area : master plan : draft.

Consists of a ts. draft (photocopy) of a master plan for the Damascus Conservation Area, Damascus, Ontario, prepared by Wayne MacMillan, Research Biologist, Resource Planning Division, Grand River Conservation Authority, in January, 1980. Includes photocopies of maps of the site.

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Annual Meeting, 1980 : budget information.

Consists of 1 volume of ts. budget information for the Annual Meeting of the Grand River Conservation Authority, February 27, 1980. Also includes agenda of the 1980 Annual Meeting and list of GRCA members. Budget materials have been briefly annotated, probably by Mac Coutts, General Manager of the GRCA.

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Clippings : 1980-12, Dec.

Consists of photocopies of clippings. Also includes an original newspaper inserted in the file : The [South Cayuga] Regional News, December 3, 1980 which contains stories concerning the proposed erection of an industrial and hazardous waste disposal facility in South Cayuga, Ont.

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Minutes, July to December, 1980.

Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Grand River Conservation Authority, in a bound volume. The volume is divided into the following sections :

  • General Meetings : minutes (the section tab is labelled Annual Meeting but consists of other general meetings only);
  • Executive Committee : minutes of meetings;
  • Water Management Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Land Use Advisory Board [empty section];
  • Community Relations Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Conservation Areas Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Miscellaneous Committees, which include the following : Apps' Mill Advisory Committee : minutes of meetings; Audit Committee : minutes of meetings; Committee for the Special Recognition of Individuals and Historical Events : minutes of meetings; Special Committee on Water and Related Land Use : minutes of meetings; and Kortright Committee : minutes of meetings.

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Spring run-off, March 21-23, 1980.

Consists of materials relating to Grand River Conservation Authority flood emergency management planning and procedures. Contains correspondence to and from the GRCA concerning flood emergency preparedness, including notices of meetings of the GRCA with representatives of member municipalities, provincial flood co-ordinators and regional and provincial police forces.

Also includes ms. and ts. test messages, and actual flood warning advisories issued during a period of rising water levels on the Grand and its tributaries, March 21-23, 1980. Also present : newspaper clipping, and computer print-out of flow projections at various sites on the Grand River.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Minutes, January to June, 1980.

Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Grand River Conservation Authority, in a bound volume. The volume is divided into the following sections :

  • Grand River Conservation Authority : Annual Meeting : minutes, February 27, 1980;
  • Executive Committee : minutes of meetings;
  • Water Management Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Land Use Advisory Board [empty section];
  • Community Relations Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Conservation Areas Advisory Board : minutes of meetings;
  • Miscellaneous Committees, which include the following : Committee for the Special Recognition of Individuals and Historical Events : minutes of meetings; Special Committee on Water and Related Land Use : minutes of meetings; Audit Committee : minutes of meetings; Grand River Implementation Committee : Public Consultation Subcommittee : correspondence; Municipal Involvement Meetings : lists of attendees, March 19-20, 1980; and Finance Committee : minutes of meetings.

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Flood bulletins and system : general correspondence.

Consists of ts. (original and photocopy) correspondence to and from the Grand River Conservation Authority, including letters received from provincial and muncipal governments, concerning flood emergency management planning and procedures. Also contains ts. (photocopy) lists of emergency contact personnel, and ms. operating schedules for the Shand, Conestogo and Guelph dams during the spring freshet period, March, 1978, including graphs and charts.

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Flood inquiry, May, 1974.

Consists of background materials assembled by the Grand River Conservation Authority for presentation at the hearings of the Ontario Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Grand River Flood, May, 1974. Primarily contains ts. (photocopy and original) correspondence between the Grand River Conservation Authority and federal, provincial and municipal governments concerning flood control programs and projects, including dams and reservoirs, on the Grand River and its tributaries. A large proportion of the correspondence is concerned with matters of funding.

Inserted in the file are : a Kitchener-Waterloo Record article titled : Flood wiped out pair's $10,000 dream, May 6, 1972; and a Regional Municipality of Waterloo pamphlet titled : Flood Warning System, amended March 20, 1980.

The following ms. note is inscribed on the folder : "Do not take apart: file assembled for Flood Inquiry, May, 1974."

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Flood Inquiry, 1974.

Consists of materials assembled by the Grand River Conservation Authority apparently in connection with a trial commencing in June, 1980 involving a lawsuit against the GRCA for property damage sustained by plaintiffs during the 1974 flood of the Grand River. Contains ts. (original and photocopy) correspondence to and from the Grand River Conservation Authority from their legal representatives, the firm of Lochead Sills Barristers, Kitchener, Ont.

Also includes ts.(original and photocopies) correspondence from 1948 to 1969 between the GRCA and federal and provincial authorities concerning flood control projects, and between the GRCA and legal firms, which appears to have been collated as evidence. Also includes ts.(photocopy) schedule of evidence presented by the GRCA at the hearings of the Ontario Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Grand River Flood, 1974; and ms.(original) report titled : Report on Grand River Flood Event, May 16-19, 1974, by the Grand River Conservation Authority.

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Apps' Mill Conservation Area : interpretive centre : tender specifications .

Consists of ts. (photocopy) tender specifications concerning work and materials for firms submitting tenders for the erection of an interpretive centre at App's Mills Conservation Area, Robinson Road, Brantford Township, Brant County, Ont. By Lingwood Robertson, Architects and Engineers, Kitchener, Ont. and Yuska & Wenzel Limited, Mechanical and Electrical Consultants, Kitchener, Ontario.

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Experience '80 : summary report.

Consists of a ts. report produced by the Grand River Conservation Authority regarding the activities of students employed in the GRCA Administration, Community Relations, Resource Planning , Water Management, and Land Management Divisions, as part of the Ontario Experience '80 employment program.

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Grand River Conservation Authority : Baden Dam and Mill Pond : preliminary report on measures to upgrade Baden Dam and Mill Pond to operating condition : draft.

Consists of ts.(photocopy) draft preliminary report on measures to upgrade the Baden Dam and Mill Pond to operating condition, prepared by G. Switzer, P.Eng., R. McMinn and J. Barlett for the Grand River Conservation Authority. Includes blackline drawings of topographic surveys and blackline drawing of the Baden Mill Dam prepared by [the Grand River Conservation Authority?], February 5, 1981 to March 5, 1981.

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Grand River Conservation Authority : Special Recognition Committee : honour roll photos and scripts.

Consists of correspondence, samples of award certificates, minutes of meetings of the Special Recognition of Individuals and Historical events Committee of the GRCA, newspaper clippings, ts. lists and profiles of recipients of Special Recognition Awards, and photographs of recipients, most of whom are identified on verso.

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Cambridge Daily Reporter, April 30, 1981.

Consists of a supplement to the Cambridge Daily Reporter, Thursday, April 30, 1981 titled : Inside Cambridge. The newspaper may have been retained due to the presence of a cover photograph of the Parkhill Bridge and Parkhill Dam which is operated by the GRCA.

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Minutes, January to June, 1981.

Consists of ts. minutes of meetings of the Grand River Conservation Authority, in a bound volume. The volume is divided into the following sections : General Membership : minutes of meetings, which include Grand River Conservation Authority : Annual Meeting : minutes, February 25, 1981; and Executive Committee : minutes of meetings.

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Water control operations, 1981.

Consists of ts. and ms. river watch reports and transcripts of telephone calls regarding ice, water flow and flood conditions on the Grand River and its tributaries. Also includes ms.and ts.(original and photocopy) test and actual flood warning advisory messages issued by the Grand River Conservation Authority to member municipalities and police forces.

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A social impact assessment of the Guelph Dam and Reservoir / by Judy Eising, Jim Giancola and Helen Break, August 10, 1981.

Consists of ts.(photocopy) corrected student essay titled : "A social impact assessment of the Guelph Dam and Resevoir," by Judy Eising, Jim Giancola and Helen Break for a fourth-year geography course at the University of Waterloo. Includes a copy of a survey instrument and a map of the Guelph Dam and Reservoir site. A note is appended to the cover : Mac[Coutts?] : this is a copy of a study done by some students of the University of Waterloo for our information [K?].

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Annual Meeting, 1981 : budget information.

Consists of 1 volume of ts. budget information for the Annual Meeting of the Grand River Conservation Authority, February 25, 1981. Also includes agenda of the 1981 Annual Meeting and list of GRCA members. Also present are correspondence and GRCA 1982 budget estimates. Budget materials have been briefly annotated, probably by Mac Coutts, General Manager of the GRCA.

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Flood warning systems and operations, 1981.

Consists of correspondence to and from the Grand River Conservation Authority, including letters received from municipal and provincial governments concerning flood emergency planning and procedures. Also includes Grand River Conservation Authority pamphlets titled : Grand River Watershed : Flood Management System, 1980, and revised edition, 1981.

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