Mount Brydges – There’s something to do on Tuesday evenings all summer long at Longwoods Road Conservation Area and Ska-Nah-Doht Village! Come on out for “Twilight Tuesdays”! Bring the entire family, meet the staff at the Resource Centre at 7:30 […]
Delaware – Come on out to the Sharon Creek Conservation Area on Saturday, July 7th for a 10 a.m. for an open-air presentation by Brian Salt from the Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Centre (weather permitting). Everyone is welcome! Brian […]
Glencoe – by Dan Brinkman and Mary Simpson Tree planting season, one of the busier times of the year for Lower Thames Conservation, lasts from early May to early June. This year saw over 90,000 trees distributed and planted across […]
Environment Canada’s Marine Forecast has issued a Strong Wind Warning for Western Lake Erie. Weather forecasts are calling for sustained winds from the northeast to easterly direction for the rest of the weekend and into Monday. During this period sustained […]
You may notice new signage at a couple of our local conservation areas outlining a new system of visitor day use payment! The Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority (LTVCA) has implemented the Mackay Pay Phone app at Sharon Creek and […]
The Thames-Sydenham and Region was established as a result of the Walkerton water tragedy of 2000, which claimed the lives of 7 people and sickened over 2000. To protect municipal sources of drinking water, the Clean Water Act was passed in […]
Overnight the Lower Thames watershed experienced intense thunderstorm activity that dropped somewhere between 15 and 50 mm of rain throughout the region. The area south of Chatham received the most rain with over 30 mm of rain recorded at many […]
Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for the Chatham-Kent and Essex County regions due to significant amounts of additional rainfall in the forecast. From last Friday afternoon through Sunday morning, the western portion of the Lower Thames watershed […]
The Thames River watershed has received 20 to 75 mm of rainfall over the last 24 hours with the majority of the rainfall occurring in Chatham-Kent and the County of Essex (45 to 75 mm). Due to the amount of […]
LTVCA Watershed-wide – It’s a busy spring for our land stewardship staff across our watershed! Tree planting season is here and we have 39 reforestation projects planned throughout the Lower Thames watershed. Projects have received over $80, 000 in grants […]
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