Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
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Water levels are trending in a positive direction. Ryan Kitchen, water resources technician with the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA), said water levels for Lake Ontario and Lake Erie so far in 2021 are going down and they’re below their record highs from 2019. In data provided by the Environment and Climate Change Canada, Lake Ontario in the month of February was eight centimetres below its long-term monthly average and 59 centimetres below February 2020 levels.
