Environment

The Politique relative à la gestion des cours d’eau of Vaudreuil-Soulanges was adopted by the MRC council in 2006 and then amended in 2010. At the time of its adoption, the MRC added an innovative prevention consideration to its policy for preemptive interventions against issues with obstructions in watercourses. The MRC also established a cutting-edge method for financing these works, establishing billing per drainage bassin weighted by geographical criteria. The MRC is responsible for managing, maintaining, and protecting the watercourses in its territory in order to reestablish normal water flow following an obstruction so that it does not cause any damage to goods, people, or property.

The MRC is taking steps to fight climate change by participating in the Federation of Canadian Municipalities” Partners for Climate Protection (PPC) program. By becoming a member of the PPC, the MRC is committed to reaching the five levels of the programme by creating a greenhouse gases (GES) inventory, creating realistic and attainable goals for reducing greenhouse gases, as well as creating and enacting local action plans and tangible measures to reduce emissions.