The City of Chateauguay has acquired two lots in the Sutterlin/René Lévesque Boulevards area to ensure their perpetual conservation as part of the Châteauguay-Léry green corridor.
Translation Amanda Bennett
The lots belonged to the estate of Réal Bourdon and were sold to the city in November for $2.4M. The city was able to access $1.2M in financial assistance from the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal through the Trame verte et bleue program for this project.
Additional conservation efforts
The City of Châteauguay intends to continue to pursue conservation efforts in this ecologically rich area. In October, the city protected 17 hectares of land in an area known as the Chateauguay North wetlands, located at the border with Kahnawake and Pelletier street.
The city created a conservation easement 72% of which was financed through the Accélérer la conservation dans le sud du Québec program within the Ministry of the Environment, the Fight Against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks. City council entrusted Héritage Saint-Bernard with the management of the lots in question. At the October council meeting, the Mayor indicated that the city spent $13 000 for opening the easement and $2000 per year for ecological monitoring.
Héritage Saint-Bernard and the city would also like to establish a conservation easement on another lot that spans Chemin Saint-Bernard. In partnership with the city, the organization submitted a funding request to Fondation de la faune du Québec to complete the project.
Before the holidays, Héritage Saint-Bernard had also acquired another lot within the Green Corridor, in the Saint-Jean stream area.
