The weather station this morning reads a cold -22 degrees with no wind, a beautifully sunny Saturday morning. It proved to be a great morning for a brisk walk on the trails with Luna. As the morning sun warmed the air, my pace slowed and reflections of projects from 2009 came to mind. I walked out of the harvested corn field and onto the road to continue my loop back home. As I walked past the row of neighbouring homes, I noticed water flowing from a pipe from two of the homes. My guess is this is a sump-pump used to remove excess water from the basement. I watched the water flow down the roadside ditch, through a culvert under the road and into the small valley of our corn field. My eyes followed the natural flow of the water down through the valley to the massive expanse of the wetland that was created this past spring. I thought to myself that this one act of building a 200' long burm(dam like structure) at the end of the valley, has given mother nature her last chance to filter and clean the water before it spills into the fragile Beaver Creek. Before the construction of this wetland, this overflow from basements, pools, field runoff and the natural leaching of septic tanks flowed unimpeded into the creek. Now we have a lush aquatic wetland to filter, clean, and purify this precious commodity we all thirst for. In time, we'll build a second wetland to help the cleansing process. In time. Right now we've helped give mother nature a leg up and we'll monitor closely the growth and health of this "last stand".

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