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Settle Lake, Dartmouth

Updated: August 08, 2018    

Caution: Since Settle is a shallow lake, the standard limnetic (i.e., open-water) trophic parameters may not represent the true trophic status of the lake

Contents:

• Water quality, and general overview

• Strong concerns of stakeholders and Government agencies

• Littoral and underwater cleanup organised by us; June 04, 1994 (Environment Week-1994)

Water Quality

Select scientific modelling and chemical/biological limnology are part of our miscellaneous archives The bathymetric map; the morphological data; the location map; the Cow Bay River watershed flow chart; peruse our predictive modelling, and view a relevant model; the Nova Scotia lake hypolimnion project; the paleolimnology of lakes in the HRM

• SETTLE LAKE, Dartmouth:- Eutrophic, comparison with HRM's data of 2006-2011, and suggested restoration parameters; October 30, 2013
• Deep station total phosphorus (TP)- comparison with our hindcast models; October 18, 2013
• Phosphorus:- Details on LCC (Lake Carrying Capacity)/Threshold values of lakes, and comparison with artificially high values chosen by the HRM; March 14, 2014

Concerns of stakeholders and Government agencies

• Email from Renee Roberge PEng, Environmental Management Services (EMS), HRM asking for our advice; October 02, 1998

• Complaints by area residents: an article in the Halifax Daily News, August 07, 1999 on Cranberry and Settle Lakes

• A quasi-scientific public presentation made us on October 12, 1994; The New Dartmouth News

• Settle lake among the worst; The New Dartmouth News, September, 15, 1994

• Warnings by DFO biologist, Paul Mandell: The Patriot, June 17-23, 1993

• An aerial photograph of Settle Lake taken sometime during upstream construction

Acknowledgements