Talk:Holland Marsh
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NAFTA and effect on Holland Marsh
I question the neutrality of the following statement:
The first farms were market gardens, but NAFTA rules have forced many family farms out of business and the rest to amalgamate into large monoculture farms, though some smaller diverse farms still do exist.
Will the original poster please cite a reference. I am not aware of any NAFTA rules that would force family farms out of business. Seems to me someone is attempting to make a political statement - besides it does not really fit with the introduction section.
--12:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)209.202.75.14 Mousky
I removed this portion from the intro:
In the 1980s a German farmer, the wife of a Ukrainian farmer, used to the many herbs and natural plant based remedies in her native country, decided to experiment with growing peppermint for her husband to sell at the Ontario Food Terminal. The idea of fresh herbs caught on like wild fire and today Canadians can find fresh herbs in any fresh produce section of their local grocery store.
I lived near the Marsh and worked it for a few summers in the 1980s, and I don't recall any herbs. What's a little disconcerting is that the statement doesn't even say this has anything to do with the Marsh at all. In any event the second sentence is non-encyclopedic. Could the person who posted this post a ref?
Maury 11:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citations needed
For these assertions citations are needed to verify this paragraph before it can go back into the article:
As of fall 2006 the municipal governance responsible for maintaining the drainage canal system[citation needed] has neglected to clean silt from the outer canals[citation needed] (as is their responsibility under the Ontario Drainage Act[citation needed]) since Hurricane Hazel in 1956. Every piece of land paved over in the 65,000-acre (263 kmĀ²) Nottawasaga region uphill of the Holland Marsh results in 6 times the amount of silt runoff than virgin land.[citation needed] Many residential subdivisions have been created in York Region, south of the Holland Marsh, stripping topsoil, felling mature trees, and flattening topography, with the result that even uphill land south of the Holland Marsh in King Township is suffering from silt problems and flooding of drainage ponds.[citation needed] A plan to redesign and clean the canals has been created by the Holland Marsh Drainage Engineer, but the municipality of Bradford West Gwillimbury expects farmers in the Holland Marsh to pay over four million dollars for the project,[citation needed] citing the Ontario Drainage Act, even though the majority of the silt is due to developers changing the topography of the Nottawasaga Watershed region.[citation needed] The municipal governance has also failed to build up the dyke roads to the stipulated height cited in the Holland Marsh Road Act,[citation needed] thus increasing flood risk, and has failed to enact a Holland Marsh Road Protocol for slow moving vehicles (as stated in the Official Town Plan of Bradford West Gwillimbury),[citation needed] thus continuing to put farmers at risk of crashes with fast driving commuters taking shortcuts through the Holland Marsh to Hwy 9 and Hwy 400.[citation needed]
Julia Rossi (talk) 01:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)