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Sackville River watershed

September 16, 2007      

Contents:

• Water quality, and general overview!

• Our submissions to: The Hammonds Plains/Upper Sackville/Beaverbank, and the Shubenacadie Lakes plan areas

• Select archives of the Sackville Rivers Advisory Board (SRAB), an advisory committee to the Halifax County
• Middle Sackville Landfill
• Little Sackville River Sediment Monitoring Program

• Bottle Lake
• McCabe Lake
• Sandy Lake, Hammonds Plains, ... deplorable accelerated eutrophication during 1996-1999
• Sandy Lake, Bedford
• Webber Lake

• Select recent news/media items
  • Major fish kills in year-2002

Water Quality

Select scientific modelling and chemical/biological limnology are part of our miscellaneous archives!

The watershed flow chart; the Nova Scotia lake hypolimnion project; the paleolimnology of lakes in the HRM; HRM's receiving water baseline sampling program for fecal coliforms

Select news/media items

• ‘Chocolate’ water irks residents; August 17, 2007  
  

• Salmon in the Sackville River shouldn't be put ahead of the safety of Shore Drive residents, the deputy mayor says; September 28, 2005, The Halifax Herald

• Major fish kills in year-2002:
  • Fish disaster draws criticism about response; July 20, 2002
  • Acid level at manhole probed Alum may have been dumped into storm-water system; July 21, 2002
  • Chemicals caused fish kill, prof says ...... River dangerous, scientist says; public health officials disagree; July 15, 2002
  • Fish-kill plan all wet - steward ...... Walter Regan says sick Sackville river needs much more than Sobeys offering; November 24, 2002
  • Sobeys urged to do more to clean Sackville stream; December 21, 2002

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