Category: Carp River flood plain / Kanata West

Re: Audit of Carp River Watershed Study and Related Projects – Potential Conflicts of Interest Mr. Mayor, Members of Committee, The Carp River Coalition is supported by four environmental organizations in the city: the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital, Friends of the Carp River, Ottawa Riverkeeper, and the Ottawa Group of the Sierra Club of Canada. The Coalition takes no position at this time on the matter of conflicts of

Following tabling of the Auditor General’s report on the Carp River studies on April 23, the matter was referred to three Standing Committees of Council. The Carp River Coalition appeared before all three to offer its comments. Comments to Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee, 6 May 2008 Comments to Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee, 8 May 2008 Comments to Planning and Environment Committee, 13 May 2008 Other interventions: Ted

On April 23, 2008, the City’s Auditor General tabled his report, “Audit of Carp River Watershed Study and Related Projects.” [709 KB, 45 pp]. (See also the Auditor General’s press release, a heavily slanted press release by City management and another highly contentious press release by the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority [none are still online].) The report vindicates key objections raised by the Carp River Coalition in its July 2006

Rezoning of Trinity land at the Carp River: A tale of an OMB hearing For two and a half days, February 20 to 22, 2008, Ted Cooper stood his ground in a hearing before Susan Schiller, Member of the Ontario Municipal Board, and against Tim Marc, lawyer for the City of Ottawa, and Joel Farber, representing Trinity Development Group Inc. Ted Cooper, a water resources engineer with the City of

CARP RIVER COALITION 18 February 2008 The solution to Kanata West requires that developers and the City “think outside the development” and start considering the Carp River in its entirety. According to a decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Carp River has the status of a Municipal Drain, from its upper reaches near Hazeldean Road to where it runs past the Village of Carp. The significance of this

COALITION DE LA RIVIERE CARP Le 18 février 2008 Il y a une solution pour le développement à Kanata Ouest. Cette solution requiert que les promoteurs et la Ville d’Ottawa pensent le développement du projet en fonction de tout l’écosystèeme du bassin versant de la rivière Carp, et non pas seulement en termes de développement urbain. Selon un jugement de la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario la rivière Carp constitue un

The following letter was published in the West Carleton EMC weekly paper of February 22, 2008, along with the media release of the Carp River Coalition: “Dear Editor, We, the citizens of Ottawa, owe a tip of the hat to Ted Cooper, who truly exemplifies a P. Eng’s duty to the public’s welfare. While the city is promising a full and independent investigation, let’s hope that it does not begin

The Carp River Coalition issued a media release in order to draw attention to what is believed to be the solution to the Kanata West conundrum: The flow of the Carp River must be improved, not just in the urban reach as is planned by the developers and the City, but all the way to the Village of Carp. That is where the Ontario Court of Appeal, in 1909, determined

Today (February 5, 2008) is a red-letter day in the long struggle to bring sanity to the proposed development in Kanata West. As a result of being given the computer model for post-development flood level analysis on the Carp River, Ted Cooper, a City water resource engineer who was pulled off the project in 2004 when he raised objections, was able to point to egregious errors in the model. (He

Planning and Environment Committee, Meeting of 9 October 2007, (Agenda 18), Item 3 Zoning – 20, Frank Nighbor Place Ref. ACS2007-PTE-APR-0158 Mr. Chairman, Members of Committee: My name is Ted Cooper. I am a water resources engineer with 20 years of experience throughout Ontario. I am here today to voice my concerns as a private citizen in opposition to the proposed use of the Carp River floodplain in the proposed