{"id":4099,"date":"2020-09-02T22:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?page_id=4099"},"modified":"2023-07-24T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:27:58","slug":"south-of-hprd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/upww-etc\/south-of-hprd\/","title":{"rendered":"South of HPR 20Aug2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Aug 20, 2020, I checked out a few sites on watercourses south of Hammonds Plains Road that feed into Sandy Lake via Johnson’s (Bob’s) Brook, notably in sub-area 12 of the Bedford West Secondary Planning Strategy<\/a> (see page 11 in that doc showing Bedford West Development sub-areas).<\/p>\n

I walked portions of those watercourses, took photos and measured Electrical Conductivity (EC) of surface water, also I checked EC of surface waters at a few points north of Hammonds Plains Road.<\/p>\n

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Electrical Conductivity Measurements Aug 20, 2020. The coloured part of the map is within the Sandy Lake watershed.
Click on image for larger version<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

There is a large wetland in sub-area 12 and the stream flowing north from it goes through a hemlock lined, steep sided stream corridor; the land east of it is a recovering clearcut. The water EC was high (567 uS\/cm) in the stream which was flowing but barely (it had been very droughty).\u00a0 EC was likewise high in the wetland a short distance upstream, and high (700 uS\/cm) in water coming out of the northern-most of two culverts on the east side of Larry Utech Blvd (Kearney lake Road).\u00a0 No water was flowing out of the other culvert. This suggests that the high EC\/salt content is coming from the tributary draining land west of sub-area 12. It all needs to be followed up when there is higher streamflow.<\/p>\n

The area is currently mostly undeveloped, but has\u00a0 been designated for development, re: the Bedford West Master Plan<\/a>, so it important that the watercourse is protected. The area is also significant as a wildlife corridor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photo & Video Album:<\/strong> Sandy Lake (Bedford, NS) Watershed: south of Hammonds Plains Road Aug 20, 2020<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhotos are GPS-tagged and you can view locations directly in this Google Photo Album<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Large wetland in sub-area 12 (DSC09999.JPG)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Site where photo above was taken, looking south- most of the wetland is not visible in the photo above.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hemlock-lined stream corridor downstream from the large wetland in subarea 12<\/p><\/div>\n

MORE MAPS<\/p>\n

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A, B and C are sites observed on Aug 20, 2020. There is a large culvert but there was no water at C (it had dried out). Streams identified on the PLV are highlighted.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Forest Development Stage, highlighted stream overlaid (not a precise fit). “Establishment” are clearcuts in early 2000s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Recent Clearcuts – 2003<\/p><\/div>\n

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2012 New development on east side<\/p><\/div>\n

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Early 2020<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nova Scotia Imagery Layer added to Forest Development Class Layer on PLV. A lot of the open land in ‘the Triangle’ has been approved for development.\u00a0 What needs to be kept to protect hydrological regimes and wildlife corridor?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The larger area<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Aug 20, 2020, I checked out a few sites on watercourses south of Hammonds Plains Road that feed into Sandy Lake via Johnson’s (Bob’s) Brook, notably in sub-area 12 of the Bedford West Secondary Planning Strategy (see page 11 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4194,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4099\/revisions\/7962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}