Cataraqui Regional Conservation Authority - Head Office (Kingston, Ontario)
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The head office of the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority (CRCA)is located here. The CRCA has jurisdiction over the whole area from the Bay of Quinte to Brockville. This actually contains ten watersheds or drainage basins.
A watershed is all lands drained by a river or stream and its tributaries. It is usually defined by a height of land. Another term for watershed would be a drainage basin.
Other functions of the CRCA include:
* Watershed strategies and management
* Mapping and development of a natural resources information database for our watershed
* Agriculture and rural landowner assistance
* Environmental education and information programming
* Land acquisition
* Outdoor recreation
* Environmental land use planning
* Habitat protection
* Reforestation
* Flooding and erosion protection
* Sensitive wetlands, flood plains and valley land protection
* Water quality and quantity monitoring
hhttp://www.cataraquiregion.on.ca
A watershed is all lands drained by a river or stream and its tributaries. It is usually defined by a height of land. Another term for watershed would be a drainage basin.
Other functions of the CRCA include:
* Watershed strategies and management
* Mapping and development of a natural resources information database for our watershed
* Agriculture and rural landowner assistance
* Environmental education and information programming
* Land acquisition
* Outdoor recreation
* Environmental land use planning
* Habitat protection
* Reforestation
* Flooding and erosion protection
* Sensitive wetlands, flood plains and valley land protection
* Water quality and quantity monitoring
hhttp://www.cataraquiregion.on.ca
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 44°17'4"N 76°30'55"W
- Wellesley Island State Park 37 km
- Charleston Lake Provincial Park - Blue Mountain Area 49 km
- Sandbanks Provincial Park 75 km
- Bon Echo Provincial Park 99 km
- Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area 129 km
- Petroglyphs Provincial Park 132 km
- Silent Lake Provincial Park 144 km
- Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park 154 km
- West Forest - Ganaraska Forest 169 km
- Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge 201 km
- Kingston Race Track (closed) 1.7 km
- Little Cataraqui wetlands 2.2 km
- McAdoo Auto Recycling 2.4 km
- Morgan's Diesel Parts 2.6 km
- Rideau Heights 3.6 km
- Cemetery 4.5 km
- Cataraqui River marshlands 4.7 km
- Fairmount Home and Seniors Apartments 4.9 km
- Township of Frontenac Islands, Ontario 16 km
- Township of South-Frontenac 28 km