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Sheldrake Lake, Hubley

Updated: August 08, 2018      

Contents:

• Water quality, and general overview

• Preamble
• Dealings with the Sheldrake Lake Homeowners Association in 1994
• Extensive dealings with the Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organisation (WRWEO)
  • Select excerpts from the October 2001 report of Kenneth Ashley, an authority on lake aeration

• Acidified states of the East, Lawrencetown, Little Salmon, Nine Mile, Pennant, Prospect, Terence Bay, and the Woodens Rivers, HRM

• Thank you Sgt. Walter Pilon of Hubley for your pragmatic cooperation throughout the 1990s

Water Quality

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

The bathymetric map; the morphological data; the flow chart of the Woodens River watershed; peruse our predictive modelling, and view a relevant model; the Nova Scotia lake hypolimnion project; the paleolimnology of lakes in the HRM

Preamble

Dealings with the Sheldrake Lake Homeowners Association in 1994

On a subsequent telephone conversation I had with him though, they were not interested in spearheading the project, and since I, Shalom M. Mandaville, live in Dartmouth, it was not convenient for me to drive back and forth as a total volunteer. In addition, my priorities have always been in continuing my research in Applied Limnology.

As it is, I spent a horrific amount of time driving back and forth all the way from Dartmouth almost on a monthly (and sometimes on a biweekly) basis during the period, 1991-92, carrying out field sampling as a total volunteer assisted mostly by an extremely dedicated/concerned local resident, Mr. Walter Pilon, and on a couple of occasions, by a resident of the Sheldrake Lake subdivision, Mr. Terry Conrad.

Because of the reasons explained in the preceding paragraph, I abandoned the project until a handful of members of another local group, the Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organisation, (WRWEO), expressed an interest in carrying out the project.

Extensive dealings with the Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organisation (WRWEO)

• A December 2000 email from Mr. Tim McGee, a Director of WRWEO, making firm commitments to us
• Email dated June 14, 2001 of Frank Hope of WRWEO re confirmation of the contractural services of Ken Ashley and reference made to our report dated May 17, 1994
• The two relevant emails from WRWEO's aeration consultant, Ken Ashley of British Columbia
  
• Letter from a Director of WRWEO, Bob Chambers PhD FCIC dated March 05, 2002 asking for advice
  

Several further discussions took place via meetings and emails during 1999-2001, and on our suggestion, WRWEO obtained the services of a reputed lake aeration specialist, Mr. Kenneth Ashley, of the B.C. Ministry of Fisheries. WRWEO has been instrumental in obtaining a major Federal funding (EcoAction) among other sources, and hopefully all of our efforts will lead to success.

Relevant excerpts from the report by Mr. Kenneth Ashley have been inserted towards the end.

The two relevant emails from WRWEO's aeration consultant, Ken Ashley of British Columbia

Mr. Ashley sent the below follow-up email on June 26, 2001:

The design report of Ken Ashley

Acknowledgements