{"id":5342,"date":"2021-01-09T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?page_id=5342"},"modified":"2021-01-11T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:26:00","slug":"swamp-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/wetlands\/wetlands-sw-of-sandy-lake\/swamp-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Swamp 5 (degraded)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2233\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410-768x1279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/EC410.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Swamp 5&#8221; refers to wetland S5 in <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LabelledSWmapwetlands.jpg\">this map<\/a> of streams and wetlands SW of Sandy Lake. It has been highly degraded by industrial activity as shown in the Google Earth Images below.<\/p>\n<p>We have been monitoring water coming from the associated stream where it comes out of a culvert under the Dairy Road and then flows into Murphy&#8217;s Pit. It has consistently had the highest EC (Electrical Conductivity) values of any of the streams we have been monitoring, also the water is very turbid, sometimes quite milky with a lot of fine materials in it.<\/p>\n<p>For EC values, View:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/more-monitoring\/\">Seasonal Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/upww-etc\/murphys-pit-convergence\/ec-nov-8-2018\/\">EC &amp; pH Nov 8 &amp; Dec 13, 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/upww-etc\/\">W and SW of S. Lake 2Oct2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Generally the flow out of the culvert and on into Murphy&#8217;s Pit is very low compared to other streams converging on Murphy&#8217;s pit, so while the water has a high salt content, its influence on salt content of Sandy Lake may not be very significant. However, the  highly turbid and sometimes milky water is concerning and should be further investigated. It would be appropriate as well to do an ion analysis of the water to determine how much of the salt content is associated with road salt (indicated by chloride content), and if there are other constituents of concern in it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5405\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5405\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5405\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swamp1b.jpg 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/nsgi.novascotia.ca\/plv\/\">PLV<\/a>, watercourse w3a highlighted. S5 is the whole area colored yellow and reddish brown. Broken lines: visible as distinct stream or drainage ditch in some Google Earth Photos, also the grey arrow points to a pond visible on\u00a0 some Google Earth Images<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5346\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5346\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5346\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc-642x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc-768x1225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc-963x1536.jpg 963w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SwampSite4Etc.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth Images 2018 above, and 2003 below<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5407\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5407\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5407\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC03391-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of stream and swamp looking south from service road entering industrial area. Inset is Google Map image showing location of camera. Photo on Nov 8, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Swamp 5&#8221; refers to wetland S5 in this map of streams and wetlands SW of Sandy Lake. It has been highly degraded by industrial activity as shown in the Google Earth Images below. We have been monitoring water coming from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/wetlands\/wetlands-sw-of-sandy-lake\/swamp-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5330,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5342","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=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5342\/revisions\/5416"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}