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ORA’s first Youth Engagement event!
ORA collaborated with Engineers Without Borders (UW Chapter) to host a youth engagement workshop for 35 grade 11 students in St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School on March 31st. The group included students from the STEM Club and from the Environment Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) Red Seal Program. ORA offered the students a Sector-Partnered Experience (SPE) focusing on real-world environmental issues to be solved. Continue reading
ORA Celebrates 10 years of Service to Ontario Rivers
ORA Speaks to the Legislature, Re: Omnibus Bill 132
With the warming temperatures and extreme rain and drought events that climate change is predicted to bring with increasing frequency and intensity as time passes, decision makers and legislators bear a responsibility to strengthen freshwater protection and resiliency – not weaken it. If this proposal moves forward it will be a precipitous turning point for our future with freshwater in Ontario and beyond.
You will find ORA’s submissions regarding Bill 132 here.
Check out ORA’s speech to the Standing Committee on General Government: Continue reading
Dam Removal, by Jeff Graham, P. Eng., GSS Engineering Consultants Ltd.
Lessons We’ve Learned from Rivers
By Frederick Schueler and Aleta Karstad at ORA’s 2018 Annual General Meeting.
Riverside Dam on the Speed River – ORA Presentation to Cambridge City Council
Howson Dam on the North Maitland River should be Decommissioned

Concrete is failing and eroding away.
Linda Heron, Chair of ORA, made this presentation on the 18th of June 2018, to the Township of North Huron’s Reeve and Council regarding the Howson Dam on the North Maitland River. According to a 19 June article by Adam Bell, Blackburn News, a decision will be made on the future of the Howson Dam soon. Continue reading
The Majestic Notty – ORA Presentation by Gary Christie, Nottawasaga Steelheaders
Dam Removal and LRIA, by Jeff Graham, P.Eng
Jeff Graham made this excellent presentation at the 17 June 2017 ORA General Meeting. He talked about his experience in southern Ontario with several dam removal projects – right from inception, through to decommissioning and river restoration. He gave some excellent tips that are well relayed in the presentation below: