Westboro Outfall Drainage Area provided by the City of Ottawa Water Environment Protection Program.
Google Map overlay of Westboro Outfalls Drainage Area
The tree watering method is pretty straightforward:
It is recommended that you pick one day each week to do your watering so that the water soaks down to the deepest roots. Early in the morning or in the evening would be best. If there are two days with substantial rainfall you won’t need to water that week. (The Environment Canada website provides the daily precipitation history for Ottawa.)
The Westboro Beach Community Association was successful in obtaining $8500 from the Community Tree Planting Program to plant 17 new trees at Westboro Beach. The trees were planted on June 16th.
The choice of trees was made by the WBCA; the National Capital Commission, the City of Ottawa tree forester and Jeff Kaster, a Westboro resident who volunteered to design the project and help with the tendering. The trees are three Eastern Poplar, five Bigtooth Aspen, three Autumn Blaze Maple, three Silver Maple, two Red Maple and one Black Willow.
We have several enthusiastic volunteers watering the trees each week; if you want to be involved please contact us.
Information for Volunteers
Westboro Beach has a new tradition thanks to the efforts of local resident, Dianna Ashworth. For the second year running, this Westboro Beach community member has secured a sponsorship from a local business to provide bedding plants for the Westboro Beach pavilion. This year Sean McCann, from Royal Lepage has sponsored this beautification program.
Food Security for all of us is important, but it is of special importance for our neighbours in the Van Lang and Taiga Housing. The WBCA has applied for a grant to start a communal community garden on the Van Lang property. The residents have also expressed a wish to grow their own herbs and vegetables on their balcony, and hence this call for plant containers. We hope you will consider donating spare containers. Please drop them off at Bonnie’s at the corner of Churchill and Lanark at 330 Lanark.
The WBCA has pursued this issue with Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre and a meeting with the superintendent responsible for the Centre Jules Leger is anticipated in the near future. The Centre Jules Leger is a school for the deaf administered by the province and the fence enclosing the property is maintained for the safety of their students.
We are looking for a solution whereby the fence line would be moved to make the former pathway available for pedestrian access. This pathway would benefit not only the residents of Ferndale and Selby as a shortcut to the transitway, but also of Selby, Beechgrove and Lanark as a more pleasant walk to the NCC pathway by the River at the end of Ferndale.
Please encourage your neighbours to add their comments and we will forward all of them to our provincial representative Yasir Naqvi. There is strength in numbers and we hope to have this green pathway opened.
As a riverside community, the Westboro Beach community places an extremely high value on our greenspaces for active living, recreational opportunities and environmental reasons. As continuous development and intensification occurs in our neighbourhood, we realize that saving existing greenspace takes on greater importance.
A community consultation will be held on Tuesday, February 5 on the re-design of the Roy Duncan Park.
The consultation begins with an Open House at 6:30 followed by a presentation and discussion which starts at 7:30. The presenter is Jeff Kaster, the landscape designer responsible for preparing the working plans for design and construction of the Park.
The City of Ottawa is planning a re-vitalization of the Roy Duncan Park which is located adjacent to the Van Lang Private housing complex at the corner of Scott and Churchill.
The Van Lang Private Housing Association, the Westboro Beach Community Association, Carlington Community and Health Services and the Dovercourt Recreation Association are working with the City and other organizations on this initiative.
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