For Immediate Release
2008-04-17
Tim Laprade, Public Education Coordinator, 613-546-4291, ext. 1229; The City of Kingston's
media hotline is 613-546-4291, ext 2300.
SEWERS & WATER QUALITY EDUCATIONAL DEPOT UNVEILING
Reporters and photographers will have an opportunity to attend the event to unveil the
Sewers and Sanitation and Water Quality Educational Depot on Earth Day at Emma Martin Park:
When: Tuesday, April 22, at 1:30 p.m. (Earth Day)
Where: Emma Martin Park (at the foot of Cataraqui Street)
Who: Deputy Mayor Rob Matheson; Paul MacLatchy, Director of Strategy,
Communications and Environment; Jim Keech, President and CEO,Utilities Kingston; Kingston
Environmental Advisory Forum; Students from the Essential Skills Program, Limestone
Community Education, a division of the Limestone District School Board).
What: Unveiling of the Sewers and Sanitation/Water Quality Educational Depot and
the launch of Fish and Frogs sewer program.
On Earth Day, Essential Skills students from Limestone Community Education, a division of
the Limestone District School Board), will join City representatives at Emma Martin Park
to unveil the Sewers and Sanitation/Water Quality education depot and launch the Fish and
Frogs storm sewer program.
This new educational depot, developed by The Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum's (KEAF)
Inner Harbour Group, the City and Utilities Kingston, is the second in a series that will
be built along the waterfront of Kingston's Inner Harbour. KEAF chose this area as the
focal point for this project celebrating the measures the City is taking to reverse the
effects of past land use practices. The first interpretive signs, installed at four
locations in Belle Park, were unveiled on Earth Day in 2006.
Under the Fish and Frogs program, www.cityofkingston.ca/stormwater/,
pictures of fish and frogs are painted near storm sewers to make residents aware that all
the water that goes down storm sewers ends up in Lake Ontario where fish and frogs are
vulnerable to any pollutants that the water might carry (like soaps, fertilizers, and oil).
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