{"id":3130,"date":"2022-10-23T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3130"},"modified":"2023-08-11T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:04:46","slug":"watersheds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3130","title":{"rendered":"Watersheds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 90%;\">Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\">backlandscoalition.ca<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3875\">Maps<\/a>\/Watersheds (this page)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are 46 Primary Watersheds and\u00a0 249 Secondary Watersheds identified for NS<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/water.strategy\/docs\/waterstrategy_nswatershedmap.pdf\">Primary Watershed Map<\/a> (PDF)<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/water.strategy\/docs\/WaterStrategy_NSWatershedMap.Secondary.pdf\">Secondary Watershed Map<\/a>(PDF)<\/p>\n<p>The Backlands lie within the Sackville River Primary Watershed, which is not a proper hydrological hydrological Unit\u00a0 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/water.strategy\/docs\/Nova.Scotia.Watershed.Assessment.Program_Part-A_Phase-1_Summary.Report.pdf\">Nova Scotia Watershed Assessment Program Part A \u2013 Initial Assessment (2011) <\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3133\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3133\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM-1024x622.png 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-23-at-8.04.12-AM.png 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Interactive NS Groundwater Viewer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Secondary Watershed (which is a hydrological unit) &#8211; The McIntosh Run Watershed &#8211; lies partially within the Backlands; it is identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/water.strategy\/docs\/WaterStrategy_NSWatershedMap.Secondary.pdf\">Secondary Watershed PDF Map<\/a>, and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/Viewer\">NS Interactive Groundwater Viewer<\/a>.<br \/>\nView<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nsefp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/droponwaterFAQ_InteractiveGroundwaterMap.pdf\">NS Online Interactive Groundwater Map Info<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcher.novascotia.ca\/DNRViewer\/?viewer=Groundwater\">Viewer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Nova Scotia is unique in that it is composed of many smaller watersheds that flow directly into the ocean, as opposed to being dominated by large watersheds (e.g., Alberta, New Brunswick, Sackatchewan, Manitoba, or British Columbia).&#8221;- <a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/water.strategy\/docs\/Nova.Scotia.Watershed.Assessment.Program_Part-A_Phase-1_Summary.Report.pdf\">Nova Scotia Watershed Assessment Program Part A \u2013 Initial Assessment (2011) <\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smaller watersheds within the Backlands that drain directly to the ocean are not identified on the interactive grounrdwater map\u00a0 or readily found elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The only map I have been able to locate showing other watersheds is that in <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/McRunWWG1994.pdf\">Steeghs et al., 1994<\/a>. From that document: &#8221; Our study area is located along the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia, in the Mainland South area of Halifax county. It is comprised of the Long Lake-Mcintosh Run, the Williams Lake, and the Purcell&#8217;s Cove watersheds. The study is referred to as The McIntosh Run&#8217; because it is by far the largest of the 3 watersheds in the study area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3138\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/BackalndsWatersheds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3138\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/BackalndsWatersheds-1024x872.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/BackalndsWatersheds-1024x872.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/BackalndsWatersheds-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/BackalndsWatersheds-768x654.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Watersheds identified in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/McRunWWG1994.pdf\">Steeghs et al., 1994<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted at backlandscoalition.ca\/Maps\/Watersheds (this page) There are 46 Primary Watersheds and\u00a0 249 Secondary Watersheds identified for NS See Primary Watershed Map (PDF) See Secondary Watershed Map(PDF) The Backlands lie within the Sackville River Primary Watershed, which is not a proper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3875,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3130\/revisions\/5721"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}