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Hamilton’s newest: Eramosa Karst Conservation Area is not fully protected (July 2008)

The Hamilton Conservation Authority has just celebrated its 50th Anniversary with the opening of Ontario’s first designated (ANSI) provincially significant Area of Natural and Scientific Interest- The Eramosa Karst Conservation Area. A wonderful and unique area with caves, sinkholes, sinking streams creating a sensitive and evolving ecosystem. In October 2006 the Government of Ontario donated 180 acres (approx 73 ha, = 37% of entire ANSI) of these lands to the Hamilton Conservation Authority to be preserved as a conservation area. The transferred lands included Karst features and a small buffer area surrounding them.

However, the feeder lands,(80 acres, = 18% of entire ANSI) east of the Eramosa Karst are presently owned by the Ontario Realty Corporation. These lands are also part of the ANSI. At the recent - June 2008, public consultations, the ORC indicated clearly that in spite of significant public support and expert opinion behind the expansion of the Conservation Area to include these 80 acres into the preserved area, the agency is steamrolling ahead with its intention to prepare the lands for sale for development.

The time has come to speak up and convince the Provincial government, the City of Hamilton and potential developers of the necessity to protect these lands from further development encroachment by transferring the remainder of the Karst feeder areas to the Hamilton Conservation Authority. Join Friends of the Eramosa Karst in this effort.

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