Method Donations and Grants Revenue 8.7 million CAD (in 2006) | Founded 1954 | |
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Focus Habitat conservation, Water conservation, Wildlife management Location Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Area served Peel Region, Halton Region, Wellington County , Dufferin County Key people Deborah Martin-Downs, CAO
Nando Iannicca, Chair Slogan Together, it’s our nature to conserve and our future to shape through the power of science, education, policy and leadership. Motto Together, it’s our nature to conserve and our future to shape through the power of science, education, policy and leadership | ||
Credit valley conservation celebrates 60 years
The Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) is a Conservation Authority responsible for the protection and management of the Credit Valley watershed, surrounding the Credit River from its headwaters above the Niagara Escarpment to the point at which it meets Lake Ontario at Port Credit, Mississauga. The CVC receives its funding from both provincial and municipal sources, as well as self-generated user fees and other service fees. The CVC was founded in 1954 when much of the area surrounding the Credit River was still used for rural agriculture and pasture. Since then, suburban sprawl has surrounded the river within the municipal boundaries of Mississauga and Brampton.
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The CVC is actively engaged in water management. The average daily flow of the Credit River is 690,000 cubic metres, 65% of which comes from groundwater. An estimated 750,000 residents in the Credit River watershed, 87% of whom live in the lower third of the watershed, in present-day Mississauga and Brampton. In 1999, 21% of the watershed was developed, and by 2020, 40% of the watershed will be developed (based on approved development and the official plans of the municipalities).
CVC owns the Limehouse Conservation Area.