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Articles in the media on lakes within the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)

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Contents:

• "A call for water clarity"; Halifax Herald, January 08, 2008

• A superb overview media article by media consultant, Ms. Kim Moar, of The Daily News; April 25, 2003
  • Clarification by Applied Limnologist, Shalom Mandaville; April 30, 2003
• Media statements by Dy. Mayor Harry McInroy, and Councillors Len Goucher, and Bob Harvey; April 29, 2003

• Warning by GPI Atlantic Inc., a public policy research group with partnership from various universities and Government agencies; July 17, 2000
• Premier Don Cameron refuses to grant provincial park at Second Lake

• New Dartmouth hosts sickest lakes; September 15, 1994
• Overview write-up in a Halifax Herald special; August 1992
• Sampling of lakes all over HRM by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax; January 20, 1992
• The Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax initiates studies of landlocked salmon habitat in the Shubencadie River headwaters; November 19, 1991
• Local lakes get checkup by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax; September 18, 1991
• Suburban sprawl; November 18, 1990

• Paul Mandell, a freshwater biologist at DFO and a Dalhousie University researcher, considered Settle Lake, Russell lake, Cranberry Lake, and Oathill Lake in Dartmouth as the "worst off"
  • Mandell's Comparative Lakes for HRM

• The Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax warns of deteriorating lakes in the urban HRM area; November 19 1990

• Lake pollutants jeopardize rec programs. Press Release on the Papermill Lake by the BWAC (Bedford Waters Advisory Committee); February 05, 1990

A superb overview media article by media consultant, Kim Moar, The Daily News- interviews with Applied Limnologist, Shalom Mandaville, over a period 2-3 months

Clarification letter_to_the_editor by Applied Limnologist, Shalom Mandaville; April 30, 2003:

Statements by Dy. Mayor Harry McInroy, Councillors Len Goucher, and Bob Harvey

Warning by GPI Atlantic Inc., a public policy research group with partnership from various universities and Government agencies

Premier Don Cameron refuses to grant provincial park at Second Lake

This park is now a reality mainly as a result of residents refusing to take the answer "NO", and who had rallied over a decade under various local `leaders' commencing with the hearings on the Sackville Civic Status. The idea of a separate municipal unit for Sackville though was defeated by the voters mainly on fear of higher taxes. It was indeed the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH) which had carried out extensive chemical and some basic phytoplankton survey of Second Lake over multiple water years!

New Dartmouth hosts sickest lakes!

Sampling of lakes all over HRM by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax

The Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax initiates studies of landlocked salmon habitat in the Shubencadie River headwaters

Local lakes get checkup by the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax

Suburban sprawl

Paul Mandell, a freshwater biologist at DFO and a Dalhousie University researcher, considered Settle Lake, Russell lake, Cranberry Lake, and Oathill Lake in Dartmouth as the "worst off"

The Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax warns of deteriorating lakes in the urban HRM area!

Lake pollutants jeopardize rec programs. Press Release on the Papermill Lake by the BWAC (Bedford Waters Advisory Committee)

Other articles and concerns on Papermill Lake, Bedford

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