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Great news in Round Bay, dead zone has retreated.
Here at Round Bay West, our WQ Crew - Emi, Mel, Tom and Ashton - celebrate 🎉 because oxygen is better than 4.45 mg/L throughout the entire water column! Yeah!!!
Poor water quality today at our Ben Oaks - Indian Landing monitoring station.
New WQ Crew member Mel discovers what locals have been reporting. This area chronically suffers from storm water runoff problems from Bear Branch and Severn Run. Result nitrogen and sediment overloading, a dead zone and an algae bloom.
Dead zone is 1.0 meter tall with a 0.15 mg/L reading on bottom. Also, poor clarity as Secchi disc disappears quickly in the red-hue waters, a sign of a persistent algae bloom. The river is the color of dark tea.
Mike Tiderman
That's my growing up hood! Used to crab and fish off the Ben Oaks dock. 😢
Is there anything being planned to curb the sediment deposits?
On a beautiful crisp last day of summer, we find the Stella Mars at our Rideout Creek monitoring station. She’s resting out of the steady breeze to do a bit of cleaning topsides.
Team Leader Emi is also handling boat-captain duties and getting right on the mark every time!
Plenty of oxygen at all our stations today in Mill, Burley, Whitehall and Rideout Creeks. All well above the 5 mg/L oxygen level that allows oysters and fish to thrive.
WQ Mate Tom handled Secchi duties. He reports that clarity is still murky, in 45 to 77 cm range.
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