Nestlé Waters Canada announced it has donated $10,000 to the Friends of Mill Creek Stewardship Rangers program.
Since 2003, the company has donated $111,350 to the Friends of Mill Creek through a fund administered by the Grand River Conservation Foundation.
The donation helps to support efforts to undertake fisheries and stream rehabilitation works, including stream bank reconstruction, stream bed re-grading, tree planting, culvert replacement and farm fencing repair.
The work is performed by the Mill Creek Stewardship Rangers, four local high school students and a crew leader hired over an eight-week period during each summer.
“The support by Nestlé Waters Canada is helping our organization to develop, promote and implement projects in the watershed that maintain and enhance Mill Creek as a cold-water stream,” said Brad Whitcombe, Friends of Mill Creek president.
Andreanne Simard of Nestlé Waters Canada, stated, “Friends of Mill Creek is doing great work, including rehabilitation of the stream, education of the general public and generation of greater awareness about the importance of maintaining our natural ecology for future generations.
“Beyond the summer employment … is the continuing ecological improvement of the Mill Creek subwatershed.”
