Meeting and enforcing regulations at each site can be difficult, especially when responsibilities are not clearly defined. Conclusion Of all the issues involved in the rehabilitation of Laurel Creek, there are three important threads from the City of Waterloo's perspective. In the City of Waterloo, the academic community has been of tremendous help in helping the corporate and public sectors find and assimilate information into their planning processes. The information gathered to date is still fairly complex. In order to better relate to the issues surrounding Laurel Creek, everyone must take a step back from the problems, re-digest a simplified form of the information and then reenter the discussion with a better understanding of the issues.
Partnerships are the keys to success.
The many different parties involved, such as the City of Waterloo, the Grand River Conservation Authority and the University of Waterloo, must form partnerships to deal with the complexity of this issue. No party has the means to tackle the issue on their own.