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Business Week Tid Biz The Buskers are coming! For four days in September the streets of Waterloo will be filled with jugglers, magicians, mimes and street entertainers from around the world as the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce kicks off its centennial year celebrations. The "busker festival", to run Sept. 7 to 10, will be the only one of its kind in southwestern Ontario and will be a preview to the 10â€"day festival to run in August 1990 in celebration of 100 years of business leadership by the Waterloo chamber. Attracting the buskers is seen as a coup for the chamber, which hopes the event can be turned into an annual tourism attraction for the city. Said Dale Wilcox who is organizing the event: ‘"This festival has the potential of drawing 40â€"50,000 people and we are excited about what this can do for tourism in this area." term decision making '.'3-'3;. from FBDB More help is now available for local businesses who want to do longâ€"term decision mnh:fd:zr their future. Federal Business _I:.evmnent Bank has three new strategic planners to 1 4 The additions are in response to an increase in clients wishing wdwek?mmgicphnafwtheirbusinesses, according to a media release. These strategic plans outline the companies‘ key godllndobjeefimthemugiuandtactiarequiredto m_llg:mmfi those decisions and monitor their success. bank‘s managers work in coâ€"operation with the client‘s management team to assist them in making key decisions that will govern the future of the business. The Kitchener branch is at 744â€"4186. b_Doynu have information about a new business, a new product ne, a seminar, wor‘! important new service or promotion Mlhouldbolmm'th Waterloo business and the community? The Chronicle wants to hear from you. Drop off information for Tid Biz at our offices during regular business hours or mail items to business reporter Ian Kirkby. nay Diguapori NOrgs ino sns pieSl 01 a PiSPTCCE SICTC! EDT His Princess Street hydmgoom consulting company specializes in measuring groundwater sources and asâ€" sessing groundwater contamination. lan Kirkby photo Ray Blackport hotds the site plan of a proposed gravel pit It‘s not just water under a bridge to Blackport Water is Ray Blackport‘s livelihood. He doesn‘t sell bottled water or drill wells. What Blackport, as principal of Terraqua Investigations Ltd., does is provide consulting on hydrogeology. . "It‘s all related to groundwater, with the two components of water supply and groundwater throughout the northern United States and Ontario. There is a wide variety in the work done by Blackport and his staff of nine. For instance, provincial regulations require a rural subdiviâ€" sion have its own water supply. Terraqua can discover whether there is sufficient groundwaâ€" ter to allow development. Then there are environmental assessments. One project currently underway is a study of a quarry in southern Ontario, to see if it can be used as a landfill site without contaminating the underlying groundwater. Another area of expertise is the development of municipal water supplies, recently for Drumâ€" bo and Hillsburgh. A Univefsity of Waterloo graduate, Blackâ€" port has maintained contacts with the Institute It‘s fascinating work, what with water shorâ€" After a successful test weekend, it has been decided to continue alternate weekend lawn watering on a test basis. Only you can ensure the continued success of this experiment. The supply of water available for weekend outdoor use is limited. A responsible and moderate use will ensure your demands do not exceed this supply. On your behalf, the Regior will monitor the consumption levels for this test weekend and inform you next week of the results. If the results indicate that your supply was not jeopardized by weekend watering, you will have ensured the continued opportunity of alternate weekend watering. Unfortunately, if excessive demands are placed on the system, the lawn watering ban must be reinstated. Even numbered addresses only in both Kitchener and Waterloo may water on Friday, Aggusl 11th and Saturday, August 12th, between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. only. You are reminded that outdoor water use other than lawns remains as follows: * Watering of new sod, newly seeded lawns; watering of gardens, trees and shrubs; and watering within 24 hours following the application of pesticide, herbicide or fertilizer is permitted between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. REMEMBER, YOUR CONTINUED WISE WATER USE WILL ENSURE A FAIR OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE. AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO > KITCHENERâ€"WATERLOO RESIDENTS A CONDITIONAL LIFTING OF THE REGIONAL LAWN WATERING BAN YOUR ROLE IN ENSURING A SUCCESS! WHO MAY WATER ON THIS WEEKEND for Groundwater Research there. The rate of growth of the region, and its impact on groundwater supplies, concern him} “Mmyoumtodmeafimyd the ( water supply) to recharge and increase contamination. Even in the townships the water is getting more use for agriculture, as farmers rely on irrigation. "We tend to think here that we have an unlimited source of water. Water management practices in Canada lag behind. We get a false sense of security being around the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes aren‘t immune to contaminaâ€" tion â€" look at the Niagara River." About 10 per cent of Blackport‘s work comes from the United States, a percentage he tries to keep low as he develops more clients in this area. Yet, despite his expertise last year was the first time in 11 years he made it onto the region‘s tender list, and that was for a review of all the previous hydrogeologic studies in Kitchâ€" enerâ€"Waterloo and Cambridge, he said. "Anyâ€" ime who‘d done work before couldn‘t be on the ist. "With groundwater resources being the only water supply in the region right now and groundwater contamination being a major political concern, I‘d expect to see a lot of work tendered, and I haven‘t seen any."