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23 I I J NO meet every type of burning Til it Mini fcT iCtf b7 nut Poca A lontas stoker a v ROBIN REPORT CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ening Recommended At Fairy Lake -K-3- TO TURN IdfS YOU NO LONGER NEED INTO CASH XMAS TREES r SALE NT MBffliy1EC 12TH s WATCH FOR OUR DISPLAY IN FRONT OF THE KING GEORGE HOTEL BUY AN OPTIMIST TREE AND HELP US TO BElsFRIEND OF THE BOY The Newmarket Optimist Club The construction of a dyke deepening and landscaping around Fairy Lake south of Water St Newmarket has been recommended by a firm of con sulting engineers to the Upper Holland River Conservation Au thority recently The authority employed James Associates to make a survey of the lake and the report was submitted at a meet ing of the authority recently It was recommended that the lake be deepened and narrowed for feet upstream from the dam at Water St by construct ing a dyke and depositing ex cavated material behind it that stone riprap be placed to a depth of two feet for 1500 feet along both banks that the re claimed area be fine graded topsoiled fertilized and seeded also that trees and shrubs be shrubs Also the westerly bank Various restraining may be trimmed and stone ripjures may be undertaken such as rap placed along it and the face reforestation grassland improye- the dyke to prevent erosion and farm planning to in- stone will be random elude contour tillage diversion placed and will have a pleasing I terraces grassed waterways and appearance Provision will be limitations on cultivated or in- made to carry drainage through crops Also some con- filled areas by means of the surface flow may be verts of adequate size achieved the construction of farm ponds However these It is our understanding that most of the property along the be out the banks Fairy private- under work the of informing wont We have given consideration to the construction of a silt trap Downstream Proposals which would cause a great por tion of the transported material None of the above proposals will alter appreciably hydraulic where it could be removed peri odically However- during K periods of high flow when the planted in accordance with some I hni quantity of transported material landscaping plan and that a program be set up for the pur pose of educating the property owners in the watershed in me thods of land use for the pre vention of erosion Estimated cost of the project not including landscaping is to settle out in one location conditions downstream from the dam as this structure will re main exactly as it exists Also while our proposal includes de creasing the width of the lake in the river In order to improve these con the river must be re routed along a new course through the parking lot either in a lined open channel or in some type of covered section A final decision regarding line size shape and grade may only be arrived at after careful in vestigation and a field survey As a result we suggest that this matter can best be dealt with in another report relating spe cifically to this work Estimate of Costs Should the authority find that it is not prepared to complete the proposed works at one time they may be carried out in several stages of construction However it is usually found that the small er the quantities included in the tender the higher the unit pike anil therefore the higher the total cost of the overall project Also additional work will be necessary in finishing off each stage by completing the dyke so that it ties in with the existing bank On the other hand the work may be more readily fin anced if carried out in stages For estimating purposes we have arbitrarily divided the work AURORA SOCIAL NEWS Continued from Page recently Mrs Powell has been visiting Mrs Toronto The United church Womens society meeting was held on Thursday afternoon in the church parlors Mis Campion secretary of the Professional Workers of the United church was the guest speaker and Mrs Lambert was soloist- The Evening Auxiliary mem bers of the Presbyterian church were guests on Monday evening of Mrs Archie Cous ins Drive The Friendship Mission Circle met at the home of Mrs J on Monday evening Mrs Lambert spent a few days last week with her daughter and soninlaw Mr and Mrs Don Stephenson St Thomas Miss Vera Clark gave an il lustrated travelogue on her re cent trip out west recently at the congregational gettogether of the United church on Monday evening Nov The Gleaners Class members of the First Baptist church held their Christmas meeting in the SHOP Main St Newmarket v Dresses Skirts for is greatest a structure of this sort would create an obstruction and might even be carried away if it were not temporarily re moved As a result we feel that a silt trap would be rela tively ineffective and therefore 10000 The following is most impractical of the text of the firms report The lake was created some years ago by damming up the Holland River at Water St to provide power to operate a grist mill Since that time the mill has been demolished and the original dam has been re placed by a concrete structure with stop gates dam has an overflow crest approximate we have in turn deepened it In addition all efforts to conserve the soil and prevent erosion contribute greatly to reducing rapid runoff which ultimately results in flashflooding Northerly from Water Street Mrs Smart Toronto gave of the construction of approx imately seven hundred feet and the second being the completion of the remainder of the project The estimated costs of carry ing out the various measures herein recommended are as fol lows Construction of dyke excava tion grading placing stone rip- the Christmas message feet in with crest at grass trees and shrubs T We also carry a complete line of Helen Harper sweaters and suits Your Chamber of Commerce is building a better community I J J Dress up your car protect upholstery at real savings TAILORED TO FIT 0 HAT COVERS I Completed Seat choice of wine blue green f Just arrived for Xraas ift ft TAILORED 1195 UP have these for most cars J In RTBt LASTS W Ti 4 TIRE viw ft x elevation The water surface area of the lake is about acres when water level is at elevation Approximately square miles of the Holland River Watershed is tributary to Fairy Lake The Holland River courses its way through farm lands from its headwaters at Lake water level elevation to Lake Simcoe water level eleva tion There is a fall of some feet above Fairy Lake which represents a steep gradi ent for a river Therefore the runoff is rapid and great varia tions in flow result So far as we know there are no records of flow measure ments on the Holland River but the runoff from comparable watersheds in the area has been measured at times and from these records it is reasonable to assume that fJood flows in the Holland watershed may at times of spring freshets reach a maxi mum of to cfs per square mile of drainage area It is therefore probable that a flash flood might mean a flow for a short time of cfs A flow of this order would result in a head of four feet above the crest of the weir In all prob ability however maximum flows will rarely exceed one- half this figure or 2000 cfs and minimum flows in drought periods may be as low as 5 Over the years considerable soil and silt transported by the water during periods of high flow has been deposited in the lake which acts as a settling basin being six to eight times wider than the river upstream However these flood flows only occur occasionally and lengthy periods of low flow persist throughout the summer months during which time the growth of weeds in the silt flourishes Hence a considerable portion of the lake becomes overgrown and unsightly Discussion of the Problem This report deals primarily with the conservation and of Fairy Lake for a distance of feet upstream from the dam at Water St First of all then some attempt must be made to prevent the growth of weeds in this area To accomplish this the depth water in the lake should be increased and the silt removed from the bottom The flow through the lake should be con fined to a narrower thereby increasing the velocity and decreasing the possibility of transported material being de posited on the bottom A considerable portion of the excavated material will be water laden silt of a very un stable nature which if placed along the banks of the lake would only flow back into the excavated channel It will therefore be necessary to con struct a dyke of stable material behind which the excavated silt can be placed This dyke should be sufficiently wide across the top to accommodate machinery After careful consideration we have concluded that the exca vation can be carried out most advantageously by first con structing port of the dyke with suitable material brought in to the site Then a cable operated bucket can be used to drag the material to be excavated to a point where it will be picked up by a clam and cast behind the dyke which may be con tinued with suitable excavated material In tills way tho silt will be removed from bot- of tho lake and the chan nel narrowed all in one opera tlon ma ta fertilized and The ap pearance of the area may alio be I a- the stream follows an irregular Transported material which is meandering course through the R W Stage No for a is deposited in the lake bottom town generally detracting of TOO from consists of particles of soil appearance of adjacent pro- at Water Total that have been removed from which for the greater Stage No 2 for remaining list- areas in the watershed by sur- consist of rather flat lands j to feet upstream from face runoff of water usually which flood periodically How- Nam at Water St Total referred to as water erosion conditions would not of construction Therefore it would seem to be serious except behind The cost does not include for able to attempt to reduce this business block for some any landscaping of the feet north of Water St area as we feel this should be The westerly bank of the river undertaken by the town or some has been eroded away to such local organization which is in- extent that certain buildings in the development of are endangered in spite of the area as a park or for forts to provide protection with purposes The cost of timbering Also immediately landscaping will vary greatly de- north of tle bridge on Timothy pending upon the use for which erosion of this type is St there is a very sharp bend this land is intended DANCING CLASSES There will be no dancing classes for the pupils of the Betty Gordon Dancing club un til Tuesday Jan Three weeks vacation is being given to the dance classes but the rehearsals for those taking part in the pantomime will be held erosion as much as possible It Is restricted by vegetation in the but is speeded up when this protection is removed by culti vation A great part of this water shed consists of farm land and It is now possible to obtain locally a complete assortment of Fire Extinguishers for all types of fires to supply your FIRE You may have immediate assurance 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