Perhaps, the demonstration project (1994-95) at First Lake, Lower Sackville, could be applied to all watersheds anywhere without any unsubstantiated claims especially since it empowers the individual! ... with hearty congratulations from us (SWCSMH) to all the partners in this project!
We herewith take liberty in pointing out that the approximate one hundred and twenty thousand dollar ($120,000) project did not document any appreciable reduction in phosphorus export inspite of the ardent hopes of the proponents of the project!
The project headed by the Municipality of the County of Halifax was inadequate since it did not include the entire subwatershed of First lake; it was a demonstration project only which incorporated experimental stewardship practices of around 1-ha with another similar site as a control. This project was the successor to an approx. $45,000 study conducted as an initial assessment funded totally by the Halifax County Municipality.
The resulting reports were over and above other independant scientific studies conducted by BIO-DFO, some graduate researchers at Dalhousie University, and several investigations by ourselves!
Project maps:
(Source: Edmonds Landscape and Construction Services Inc., Halifax County Municipality and R.H. Loucks Oceanology Ltd. 1993/94. The First Lake Total System Watershed Management Project. Phase 1: Neighbourhood Stewardship. 30p, appendices.)
Our contribution:
We, the Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH), had filmed the entire public presentation on the demonstration project by the Halifax County Municipality which was subsequently broadcast on several occasions over the 1990s as a two-part episode by Shaw Community Cable and carried by other cable stations in HRM on our "Science Is Your World" series (see our tapings [243] and [244]).
We salute the Chebucto Community Net (CCN) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for hosting our web site, and we applaud its volunteers for their devotion in making `CCN' the best community net in the world!
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