by Alan James | Jan 11, 2022 | News, Road Salt, Stoney Creek, Uncategorized, Water Monitoring
Preliminary data shows chloride contamination occurs in other locations than Stoney Creek Data downloaded from three Zentra dataloggers shows responses to freezing weather events. In the graph above, air temperature is approximated by the temperature inside the...
by Alan James | Jun 22, 2021 | News, Stoney Creek, Water Monitoring
Stoney Creek in the news George Kovacic , one of our members, has been instrumental in getting the multi-jurisdictional technical committee to study the issue about raw sewage spills from Coquitlam into Stoney Creek. This week raw sewage flowing into Stoney Creek was...
by Alan James | May 31, 2021 | Road Salt, Stoney Creek, Water Monitoring
Conductivity Data loggers We now have 2 real-time conductivity loggers active, one in Stoney Creek and one in the Brunette River at the Cariboo Dam. In addition, with a grant from the we have purchased 6 more Solinst Levellogger 5 EC to add to the 3 purchased by the...
by Alan James | Mar 6, 2021 | News, Salmon, Stoney Creek, Water Monitoring
Stoney Creek Road Salt and Salmon Project aims to identify the extent of road salt contamination in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and support academic research into the effect of road salt on Coho salmon. We hope this will eventually lead to salt being classed as a toxic substance requiring a licence to apply it.
by Alan James | Dec 31, 2020 | Stoney Creek, Water Monitoring
2020 was a difficult year for all of us, but Jennifer and Matt managed to tend to the data logger on Burnaby Mountain. The graph shows the high values over the dry summer months due to road salt in the groundwater that feeds the creek. Winter values have so far been...
by Alan James | Jan 8, 2019 | News, Stoney Creek, Water Monitoring
When the sun comes out, the salt levels in the creek rise. When it rains, the salt is diluted and the conductivity values drop. Over the years, winter levels appear to be rising: Historical water...