Notice of completion

The City of Kitchener has completed the Class Environmental Assessment to address flood risk at Schneider and Shoemaker Creeks. The recommended solution is to:

• Construct naturalized channels,
• Realign a section of the Iron Horse Trail, and
• Include three amenity features along the trail.

The City has planned this project through the Schedule “C” process of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2015). As such, public and technical agency consultation played a key role in developing the study recommendations.

An Environmental Study Report (ESR) documenting the planning process undertaken, details of the study recommendations as well as potential impacts and mitigation measures, has been completed and is being made available for public review. Subject to comments received following this Notice and the receipt of approvals, the City intends to proceed with the detail design and construction of the recommended project as outlined in the ESR, which will include further in-person public engagement sessions before construction.

View the report

View the appendices

Interested persons may provide written comments to the project team by May 27, 2024. Further information may be obtained from one of the following members of the project team:

Chris Nechacov, C.E.T.

Design & Construction Project Manager

City of Kitchener

Tel: 519-741-2200 ext 7148

Email: schneidercreekea@kitchener.ca

Steve Brown, MBA, P.Eng.

Project Manger

Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Tel: 519-585-7446

Email: schneidercreekea@stantec.com

In addition, a request to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks for an order imposing additional conditions or requiring an individual environmental assessment may be made on the grounds that the requested order may prevent, mitigate or remedy adverse impacts on constitutionally protected Aboriginal and treaty rights. Requests should include your full name and contact information.

Requests should specify what kind of order is being requested (additional conditions or an individual environmental assessment), explain how an order may prevent, mitigate or remedy potential adverse impacts, and can include any supporting information.

The request should be sent in writing and must be received by the Minister and Director at the coordinates below as well as to the City of Kitchener project contact above no later than May 27, 2024:

Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks

777 Bay Street, 5th Floor

Toronto, ON M7A 2J3

Minister.mecp@ontario.ca

and

Director, Environmental Assessment Branch

Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks

135 St. Clair Ave. W, 1st Floor

Toronto, ON M4V 1P5

EABDirector@ontario.ca

Please visit the ministry’s website for more information on requests for orders under section 16 of the Environmental Assessment Act at: www.ontario.ca/page/class-environmentalassessments-part-ii-order.

All personal information included in your request – such as name, address, telephone number and property location – is collected, under the authority of section 30 of the Environmental Assessment Act and is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public. As this information is collected for the purpose of a public record, the protection of personal information provided in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) does not apply (s.37). Personal information you submit will become part of a public record that is available to the general public unless you request that your personal information remain confidential.

This Notice was first issued April 10, 2024.