Quebec City, September 17, 2024 - Fondation Rivières and Eau Secours welcome the tabling of Quebec's National Water Plan presented today by the
Did you read Ariane Krol's article published in La Presse on June 9, 2024? Her dossier, Tensions sur fond de sable blond, brilliantly documents the case of the Batiscan beach and establishes for good what we've been trying to communicate for a year: the shoreline is public. The littoral is the shoreline that is dry once the water has receded after the great spring floods or tides. It's called the high-water mark or littoral limit. The Ministry of the Environment has confirmed that it has not ceded the littoral and that it takes precedence over any transactions or demarcations made by riparian owners. In very rare cases, some river and lake beds are privately owned, but these exceptions date from the distant past.
Here are 10 inspiring ideas promoting resilience for the future of water in Montreal. These recommendations addressed to the City of Montreal are found in the Fondation Rivières's memorandum “Green and blue spaces: adaptation at the heart of the new Montreal water strategy”.
The Fondation Rivières wrote to the municipality of Batiscan to inform it that the Batiscan coastline is the domain of the State and it is public since the Ministry of the Environment has never granted land there.
Press release – Fondation Rivières reveals the results of a study on the bacteriological quality of water from the St. Lawrence River and the Assomption River in Repentigny.
Citizens mobilized more than a hundred people during the peaceful demonstration held at Batiscan beach on Friday August 18, 2023.
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