Taking a closer look at the Tantramar River watershed
World Water Day is coming up on Tuesday, and in celebration, EOS Eco Energy is offering people a close-up look at some of the brooks and streams in their own watershed.
In an online lunch and learn session on Tuesday, EOS’s Miranda Corkum and Lauren Clark will present the results of water and habitat assessments from the Tantramar River Watershed.
CHMA spoke with the pair earlier this week to find out more about how they are studying the watershed, and what they learned.
This is the second time that EOS has done sampling in the Tantramar River watershed after starting its water monitoring project in 2018, funded by the New Brunswick Environmental Trust.
“The health of the Tantramar River watershed is good,” says Corkum, but that ‘good’ should be taken with a grain of salt. In the index system used to measure watercourses across Canada, “good actually really means average,” says Corkum. “It doesn’t mean, you know, pristine water or anything… There’s a lot of room for improvement. We have some highly impacted rivers in this watershed.”
Corkum will present the detailed results of testing in tomorrow’s session, including looking at pH, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, total dissolved solids, and salinity. In addition, Corkum also sent samples for lab analysis regarding 59 different parameters. “We got down really into the nitty gritty of the chemistry of the water,” says Corkum.… Continue