Environmental

The Blue Mountains Invites Residents to “Pitch-In” for Earth Week

The Town of The Blue Mountains encourages members of the community to participate in Pitch-In Canada Week, taking place from April 16 to April 22, 2023.

Pitch-In Canada Week encourages participants to pick up litter from parks, trails, shorelines and public spaces throughout their community during the week leading up to Earth Day on Saturday, April 22, 2023.

New Fish Culvert Installed in Little Beaver River

The Town of The Blue Mountains would like to invite residents to attend a celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new fish culvert that has been installed in the Little Beaver River by the Beaver River Watershed Initiative.

The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 22, 2023, on the Georgian Trail west of Lansdowne Street N in Thornbury. The rain date for the event is Sunday, April 23, 2023, at 11:00 a.m.

Tree Planting Event Taking Place Saturday, September 24

The Town of The Blue Mountains is partnering with TreeTrust TBM and the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club to hold two tree planting events on Saturday, September 24, 2022. All members of the public are invited to attend or volunteer at the events.

The event will see more than twenty-five large, eight-foot-tall trees planted at two locations in the Town. The first tree planting will take place at Heritage Park at 118 Kandahar Lane beginning at 10 a.m. The second tree planting will start at 2 p.m. at Delphi Point Park located at 209233 Highway 26. 

Call for Applications to the Town of The Blue Mountains Environmental Sustainability Fund

The Town of The Blue Mountains would like to advise community organizations that the Town’s Environmental Sustainability Fund is now accepting applications.

This fund has an allocation of $5,000 that will be split between the successful applications which demonstrate a clear goal of advancing environmental sustainability within the Town.

2022 Wild Chervil Focused Pesticide Spraying Begins

The Town of The Blue Mountains is providing this notice to rural residents to advise that the annual noxious weed control program to manage Wild Chervil will begin Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Under the Weed Control Act, the Town is required to control Wild Chervil. The pesticide application will be conducted by a licensed technician and only applied to roadside areas that appear visually unkept and where there is evidence of Wild Chervil.