The Municipality of Kincardine continues to battle the invasive common reed phragmites along the coast.
A report to council this week says the Ministry of Natural Resources will allow them to spray the perennial grass until the summer of 2018.
Enbridge has committed $100,000 to help restore the coastal meadows at the Brucedale Conservation Area in partnership with the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority, and the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal conservation.
Fair weather put the spraying program ahead of schedule in 2015. But there are still a lot of phragmites that need to be eradicated along the shoreline.
There's $30,000 in the budget for the program in 2016. The municipality has already spend nearly $69,000 on the program.
The invasive plant causing damage to Ontario’s biodiversity, wetlands and beaches. The perennial grass has been damaging ecosystems in Ontario for decades.
