Category Archives: Water Quality

HRM Regional Council adopts recommendations related to LakeWatchers Report 14Nov2024

Posted on November 14, 2024 by admin

View Item No. 15.3.2, Halifax Regional Council November 12, 2024 This document includes a Staff Report dated Apr 22, 2024, and the full LakeWatchers State of the Lakes Report, 2022-2023 Sampling Years. “Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee received a staff … Continue reading →

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Thurs Aug 15, 2024: Join us for Wetlands Appreciation Week at the Backlands Bioblitz

Posted on August 9, 2024 by admin

🌿Have you heard about the Backlands Bioblitz?!🌱 Our HRM Alliance and Ecology Action Centre are helping us celebrate Wetlands Appreciation Week with a Bioblitz Hike in the Halifax Backlands on August 15th from 6:00pm – 8:30pm. What is a “Bioblitz”? … Continue reading →

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Radon, Bird Friendly Halifax, Municipal Watershed Management Framework, Coastal Management all topics of the HRM Environment & Sustainability Standing Committee Aug 1, 2024

Posted on August 8, 2024 by admin

There was a lot packed in to the August 1, 2024 meeting of the  Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee. View: – Proceedings on YouTube -The Agenda PDF  It includes Links to related documents, amongst them: – Radon Awareness, PDF of … Continue reading →

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Full year of citizen science water quality monitoring reveals episodic salt events in Governors Brook (Halifax, NS) 29May2023

Posted on May 29, 2023 by admin

Governors Brook, originating near Herring Cove Road, feeds into Colpitt Lake (unsettled), which in turn drains into the partially settled Williams Lake.* A study conducted in December of 2015 suggested that Governors Brook/Colpitt Lake is the major source of salt … Continue reading →

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Can we move back from a precipice for the Williams-Colpitt Lakes Watershed? 25Jan2022

Posted on January 25, 2022 by admin

The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (NSURB) will hold a hearing on March 30, 2022 to consider an appeal by a developer to reverse the decision of the Halifax and West Community Council to turn down his request to … Continue reading →

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Wed Aug 29, 2018: Fate and Transport of Road Salt Chloride in Urbanizing Watersheds

Posted on August 10, 2018 by admin

August 29th, 2018 **12PM** Dalhosuie Univ Faculty of Engineering, Sexton B-228 (with Lunch) Special Guest Lecture in Hydrology Fate and Transport of Road Salt Chloride in Urbanizing Watersheds Dr. Claire Oswald, BSc (Hons.) MSc, McM, PhD, Ryerson University Assistant Professor, … Continue reading →

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