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Steelhead Association fights erosion on McIntyre River

THUNDER BAY -- What's good for the fish is good for the river.
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North Shore Steelhead Association secretary Frank Edgson. (Jamie Smith, tbnewswatch.com)

THUNDER BAY  -- What's good for the fish is good for the river.

It's part of why the North Shore Steelhead Association has been trying for more than five years to stop the banks of the McIntyre River from eroding near the Thunder Bay Country Club, a project that will mostly wrap up Saturday with a public planting.

The banks of the river near Central Avenue have eroded more that five metres since the association began looking for a way to stop it in 2010.

Material from that erosion was heading down stream and making it difficult for rainbow trout to move along the system. The golf course itself was also losing a bit of its property as a result.

"It wasn't a good situation for fisheries and it wasn't a good situation for the golf course," association secretary Frank Edgson said.

The west bank of the river now has riprap, rocks along the edge, and protective boulders in the river itself to keep the stream moving without taking the bank with it.

On Saturday the final part of the project is kicking off, with trees, shrubs and sod being planted.
 





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