Programs

• Environmental Monitoring
• Flood Plain Management
• Shoreline Management
• Forestry and Land Stewardship

The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority - ABCA - provides a number of environmental services within the watershed boundaries. In cooperation with our member municipalities, landowners, residents and partner organizations, agencies and businesses it is our goal to ‘build better environmental conscience' leading to healthy communities and a healthy watershed.

Preventive programs and services are developed to address the ever-changing environmental issues that affect our society. The ABCA maintains a complement of knowledgeable and helpful staff, who are available locally, to offer their expertise to the watershed municipalities, residents and landowners.

Other Links

• Watershed Report Cards
• Source Protection Planning in Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region
• Source Protection Stewardship in Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley SPR
• New interactive mapping portal at camaps.ca
• Sinkhole Study
• Conservation Ontario Watershed Pilot Projects
• Species at Risk - The Ausable River Recovery Strategy 
• Ontario Regulation 97/04: Development, Interference with Wetlands & Alterations to Shorelines and Watercourses
• Friends of the Old Ausable Channel
• Zurich Drain Water Quality Enhancement Project
• Old Ausable River Channel Long-Term Management Plan
• Huron Stewardship Portal
• Ausable Bird Observatory
• Wetland Restoration througth Healthy Headwaters Wetlands Initiative

The Huron Clean Water Project may be your chance to take advantage of Huron County's committment to water quality and improve the water quality on your property. Property owners and community groups from Huron County with stewardship projects to improve surface and groundwater quality can download the Huron Clean Water Project flyer through our Forestry and Land Stewardship page or Publications. Information is also available on that page about the Clean Water Program for Middlesex, Oxford and Perth residents.

Tree Order Forms - To download Spring or Fall Tree Order Forms, species charts and list of services visit our Forestry and Land Stewardship page. For more information phone Ian Jean, Forestry and Land Stewardship Specialist with the ABCA, at 519-235-2610 or 1-888-286-2610.