Conservation

HRM Environmental Committee Report

admin Call for Support, Conservation, Meetings, Notices, Reports & Studies, Watershed, Williams Lake Dam
West end of Williams Lake Sept 2020

HRM’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee (ESSC) will consider the Staff Report in response on the remediation of the Williams Lake Dam this Thursday, 3rd February, 2022 to review the report and recommendations.

We need your support. The WLCC feels that a report on declining water levels that gives no consideration to climate change or the impact of development in Williams Lake’s extensive watershed is incomplete at best and at worst misleading. There are concerns about the availability of public access when levels leave popular entry points high and dry.

See the report and consider making your views known to the committee.

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A Natural Classroom

admin Conservation, Flora & Fauna, Reports & Studies, Watershed, Wildlife
A Natural Classroom

The Williams Lake Conservation Company (WLCC) has been involved with the health and preservation of Williams Lake and its watershed since 1968. Today, we continue to see university students, supervised by some of our WLCC academics, studying, testing, researching and contributing their findings to our continuing efforts to protect the lake and its watershed.

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UPDATE: Rezoning of 48-50 Old Sambro Road (Case #22890) defeated

admin Conservation, Meetings, Press Release, Watershed, Wildlife
HRM rezoning sign

Halifax & West Community Council last night rejected the motion to ‘upzone’ the properties at 48 & 50 Old Sambro Road from R2 to R3. This defeat prevents R3 zoning which would have allowed a three story apartment building with underground parking next to Governors Brook and Catamaran Ponds which flow into Colpitt Lake and on down to Williams Lake.

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Fire Destroys. Nature Restores.

admin Conservation, Flora & Fauna
Williams Lake Fire

There were two major fires in Spryfield in 2009 and 2012. Camp fires, near Roaches Pond, in the MacIntosh Run area started the massive fire in the spring of 2009. The ferocious blaze threatened lives, destroyed homes, razed property and incinerated acres of pristine, forested barrens in the Purcells Cove Conservation Lands. More than 100 firefighters and five water bombers were used to fight the inferno.

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