Holden rural residents worried water will be held back in drainage district

By Patricia Harcourt
Staff Reporter

About 40 people attended an open house for public input on a water management study of the Vermilion river at St. Mary’s Hall south of Holden Thursday, Jan. 12.

Although the parameters of a discussion paper by the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance made no mention that water could be held back in the Holden Drainage District area as part of a future management scheme, that is what was on the minds of those attending the meeting, even a couple of members of the steering committee who sit on the local drainage district board.

The discussion paper is for the development of a watershed management plan for the Vermilion River watershed in Alberta, which starts in an area south of the hall in Flagstaff County.

More see the Jan. 17/12 issue of the Tofield Mercury