Un texte de Benjamin Aubé, Radio-Canada, 25 September 2017
Event Media Coverage – February 2018:
CBC Morning North – Dr. John Gunn: Is there too much salt in Sudbury Lakes?
CBC News – Dr. John Gunn: Panel on salt in Ramsey Lake part of a larger conversation
The Sudbury Star – Dr. John Gunn: Letter: Smart water technology needed
The Sudbury Star: Letter: Sudbury needs to tackle road salt problem
The Sudbury Star: Sudbury’s ‘challenging time-bomb’
Sudbury.com: Road salt is damaging Ramsey Lake and we’re not doing enough about it: Panel
CTV News: Can salt levels in lakes affect blue-green algae growth?
CTV News: How salty is Sudbury’s Ramsey Lake?
The Sudbury Star: Is there too much salt in Sudbury’s drinking water?
For Immediate Release: 30 January 2018
SUDBURY – The Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance (GSWA) is hosting a Panel Discussion on Road Salt on 5 February 2018, 7:00 pm, at the Vale Living with Lakes Center, 935 Ramsey Lake Road. The public is invited to this open forum to learn more about the growing problem of road salt entering into our freshwater lakes, rivers and aquifers.
Increasing sodium and chloride levels from road salt is a cause for concern, especially in water bodies that are sources of our drinking water.
Scientists and municipalities across North America are struggling to find solutions to the problem of chloride and sodium used to de-ice paved surfaces. There are few mitigation methods, and currently there is no practical way to remove salt from our drinking water, or the environment.
Our particular concern with respect to the above noted applications is the establishment of large hard surface parking areas within the Ramsey Lake Watershed, the source of drinking water for over 50,000 City residents. Such a large parking area will require winter maintenance that will undoubtedly result in a significant increase in sodium and chloride concentrations in Ramsey Lake, which has already increased by approximately 60 percent since 1990.
An invasive plant is spreading throughout the lakes of Greater Sudbury. It’s called the Eurasian watermilfoil. We spoke to a couple of members of the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance about just how bad the problem has become. September 28, 2017
CBC Radio-Canada – article – click here: