[All] Red Side Dace can protect

[Lanteigne]

Quick correction 
The Redside was with Hidden Valley and Hwy 413 and a couple of other projects I worked with previously but NOT part of the West Side Lands hearing. We won concessions for a fish community way but not in regards to that particular fish. 
Louisette 



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On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 6:05 PM, Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca> wrote:

Will correct. Thank you. It was with 413 and Hidden Valley and other locations I did. Thanks for the correction.
Louisette 


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On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 4:23 PM, Dean Fitzgerald <deanfishy at hotmail.com> wrote:

#yiv6777688824 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Good Afternoon Lulu,
Nice to hear from you.
For the west side lands, Clair Creek, and Laurel Creek, I did NOT say the Redside Dace was there. I published all the records of fish I could find for Laurel Creek, initially in my MSc. that was completed during summer 1996. After the completion of the MSc., I then published the fish survey results in a number of peer reviewed articles. None of these articles identified Redside Dace. Please note that other dace were in those collection but ZERO Redside Dace. I also deposited numerous fish specimens at the WLU museum and Royal Ontario Museum. One such publication is attached to this note. I purposely published this information, as a record of what was there at the different sample times.
For the 20 m environmental buffer for the creeks, it was based on the presence of sensitive fishes, as required under the Fisheries Act and Ministry of Natural Resources plus the guidance within the Policy and Planning Statement (PPS). Back then, I could have also cited the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act but it was redundant to the Fisheries Act.
It is also important to remember the updated Ontario Endangered Species Act did not become active until 2008 and I think that our west side lands activity happened just before the ESA was updated. 
Plus the recovery strategy for the Redside Dace came out well after the OMB decision for the west side lands.
In summary, I did not identify Redside Dace in the Laurel Creek watershed and I definitely did not say such in the affidavit back in the day. 
Please do not tell folks that I found Redside Dace in Laurel Creek or Clair Creek. This is not correct.
Thank you for all of your hard work to protect the environment and Mother Earth.

Sincerely,
Dean Fitzgerald
From: Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 3:55 PM
To: Dean Fitzgerald <deanfishy at hotmail.com>; Neil E. Taylor <neiletaylor at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Fw: Red Side Dace can protect Good news for Red Side Dave. I am still at the City of Waterloo Parking Lot writing all this. I told staff to prevent floods and good water quality heading to our wells,  protect the Jefferson Salamander, Wavy Rayed Mussel and Red Side Dace. 
My letter to Gren below. 
Lulu 


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On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 3:53 PM, Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca> wrote:

Hi folks 
With the West Side Lands OMB hearing PL071044, fhe Endangered Red Side Dace secured me 20m buffer zones both sides of Clair Creek to protect its habitat and the loosing recharge that acts like a whirlpool sucking water down to the deep aquifer system feeding the Greenbrook Well. 
This fish now has a recovery strategy out. This will impact HWY 413. Years ago I my findings on 413 were submitted with that public process which successfully stopped the 413. With this new info we may see the same results. 
 https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/08/20/environmental-group-celebrates-as-federal-government-finalizes-delayed-plan-to-protect-redside-dace-after-legal-pressure/
The Red Side Dace is a fish found where groundwater enters rivers and tributaries. It’s often a sign of good water quality along with other species such as Wavy Rayed Mussels and Jefferson Salamanders. 
I went to the city to ask them to do tests for those three animals and to apply critical habitat protection on them because they serve to protect water quality, water flow and flow rates and help to offset flood risks by protecting natural recharge infiltration areas. I used that at the West Side Lands. These animals are in the Laurel Creek Watershed, confirmed in Clair Creek with the Laurel Creek Watershed Study and physical samples are at Wilfrid Laurier. Dr, Dean Fitzgerald worked on that. He worked with EcoMetrix and was An Adjunct Prof at UW and Cornell University. His affidavit is with my documents at the Wilfrid Laurier Archives. 
https://libarchives.wlu.ca/index.php/louisette-lanteigne-fonds
I can also confirm the Wavy Rayed Mussels and Red Side Dace are adjacent to Hidden Valley upstream of the water intake at the Mannheim wells. We need the critical habitat studies done to protect them there.  
To this day I have not seen evidence of the Ministry Orders Salt Mitigation Stratrgy that I secured during the River Road Extension process by Hidden Valley. 
Louisette Lanteigne 700 Starflower AveWaterloo ONN2V 2L2 

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