Water Matters

The 138-year-old Milltown Dam, located near the mouth of the St. Croix River between Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, is on course to be decommissioned and removed.

A recent workshop in the Niagara region of Ontario helped gather ideas on how the Commission can improve the inclusion and engagement of First Nations, Métis and tribes in its transboundary work. 

A study is ongoing in the Souris River basin with the main objective of recommending improvements to the 1989 international agreement that governs the operation of four major dams in Saskatchewan and North Dakota.

Sure, hydrologists, engineers and other technical experts rely on years of training and experience as they work on modeling and reports about flooding and its causes and impacts along Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River. But they don’t do it in a vacuum.