A newspaper article concerning pollution of the Moira River as stated in a Moira River Conservsation Authority report, as well as an article on a MRCA proposed dam in the City of Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article from The Ontario Intelligencer, 17 February 1965 concerning methods used by the Moira River Conservation Authority to avert a threatened flood of the Moira due to the accumulation of ice in the river as it flowed through Belleville.
File contains several newspaper articles concerning flooding and related damages to property in Belleville during the flood of the Moira River in 1936.
File contains a newspaper account of a flood and attendant damages to businesses in Belleville during February, 1878 as Moira River waters crested during a rainstorm.
File contains a typescript circular letter to the members of the retail section of the Belleville Chamber of Commerce [BCC] from the BCC president J.C.R. Punchard concerning flood warning and watches established by the Moira River Conservation Authority [MRCA] during the winter of 1959. Also contains a printed flood warning statement issued by the MRCA, 14 April 1959. Also present are several newspaper articles concerning high waters and flooding of the Moira River in Belleville in March, 1959.
File contains a newspaper article concerning improvements to the dam and the creation of a small 'lake' on the Moira River opposite Riverside Park on Cannifton Road, Belleville in 1968.
File contains a newspaper clipping which includes a reprint of a letter from W.N. Ponton concerning a mineral springs on the Ponton property in West Belleville near Zwick's Island.