H20 Chelsea Water Research Program - Our Goal: "To develop a better understanding of ground and surface water resources in Chelsea that will inform municipal planning and management descisions."

Our Funding

To date, H2O Chelsea has accrued more than $397,000 worth of funding, including $150,000 from the Fonds d'action québécois pour le développement durable (2004-2005), $40,000 from the North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation (2003-2004), $100,000 from the Municipality of Chelsea ($20,000 a year for 2003-2007), $70,000 from the CLD des Collines de l'Outaouais (2006-2007), $25,000 from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation (2006) and $12,000 from Environment Canada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (2006).

 

Click here to visit the FAQDD web site. Click here to visit the Municipality of Chelsea Web site
Click here to visit the Water & Duncan Gordan Foundation Web site Click here to visit the CLD Collines Web site.
Click here to visit the environment Canada Web site. Click here to visit the CEC web site.

In-kind donations (the providing of volunteer hours, services and physical items such as scientific equipment) by our many volunteers, the University of Ottawa, ACRE members and local businesses is another significant part of our project funding.

Click here to visit the ACRE web site. Click here to visit the Insitute of the Environment web site.

English-French tranlation of several H2O Chelsea documents has been donated by students of the Language Studies Department at the Université de Québec en Outouais, under the supervision of Professor Christiane Melançon.
Click here to visit Université de Québec en Outouais

The H2O Chelsea steering committee would like to thank the volunteers, funders and residents of Chelsea for their generous support. We appreciate your help in making the program a great success.

Water Monitoring Kits Initiative Funding Confirmed

H2O Chelsea recently confirmed funding which will permit the program to embark on it’s Water Monitoring Program Kits initiative in 2006-2007. This phase of the project will see us fine-tune our lake, stream and well monitoring programs, and related education programs, and transfer them to interested communities across Canada.
Please visit the website in the coming weeks for more details.


Want to support the program?

Interested in volunteering? Do you have a motorboat, scientific equipment or a monetary donation you'd like to donate to the project? Please contact us to discuss ways you can help in the continued success of our community-based program.