“Working with you...For our Environment...Our Future.”

The Nickel District Conservation Authority (NDCA) is a community based environmental agency that promotes source water protection and safeguards local ecosystems throughout its area of jurisdiction known as the watershed, and based on watershed management programs. The Conservation Authorities model has received worldwide recognition over its 50+ year history and the watershed is now recognized as one of the premier natural ecosystem units on which to manage renewable natural resources.

It is everyone’s responsibility to take actions, by committing the resources required to implement solutions, which will result in a healthier community for our children, grandchildren and future generations!

The Business of Watershed Management

The NDCA is in the business of managing watersheds. We are all connected by watersheds; actions taken, either positive or negative, can impact the health of the entire watershed.

A watershed is an area of land that catches rain and snow and drains or seeps into a marsh, stream, river, lake or groundwater. Homes, farms, cottages, forests, small towns, big cities and more can make up watersheds. Some cross municipal, provincial and even international borders. They come in all shapes and sizes and can vary from millions of acres, like the land that drains into the Great Lakes, to a few acres that drain into a pond.

Protect & Improve Water

Clean water is essential for protecting human health. Water is our most precious natural resource, but unfortunately, one that is often taken for granted. It is only by properly managing the human impacts on our land that we will ever be able to ensure a clean and healthy water source for now, and for future generations.