13 Nov PEI AWP Steering Committee Conducts Fall Tour to Various Projects
On Friday, November 8, 2024, members of the AgriWatershed Partnership Steering Committee attended a tour of 5 on-farm projects supported by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership. The first project visited was a combination field trial of a streambank stabilization technique called a vegetated mechanically stabilized embankment or MSE wall. The project was conducted with the cooperation of Dunk River Farms, PEI Department of Agriculture, East Prince Agri-Environmental Association and Bedeque Bay Environmental Management Association. The works included a combination of standard rock armoured rock chute to control erosion at a crucial outlet to the many erosion control structures on the property and a trial of the MSE walls to address severe streambank sloughing.
The second stop on the tour was at Diamondale Farms in Milton to view an excellent example of a sediment catchment structure supported by the AgriWatershed Partnership Outlet Support Program. The erosion control system installed above the sediment pond was installed under the Canada-PEI Stewardship program and construction was designed and supervised by Kurtis Rooke, Soil and Water Engineer-in- Training with the PEI Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture section.
Third stop on the tour was a brief visit to 2021 AWP merit-based soil conservation project done in cooperation with the PEI Department of Agriculture and Power Produce Inc. of Elliotvale. In addition to that site we visited Circle H Farms merit-based project done in 2022.
The last stop on the tour was Shady Lane Farms of Vernon River at the site of a wood-chip bioreactor installed as a demonstration project in cooperation with Pisquid River Enhancement Group, Morell River Management Cooperative and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
An MSE wall constructed to stabilize a streambank at Dunk River Farms. The original bank (right photo)