Beveridge Locks & Tay Pollution

[Wildlife_Scientist]

Hi. I am a fish and wildlife technician, wildlife scientist and biologist.

I recently conducted a study where I have found that there is a high amount of organic pollution in the Tay / Beveridge area and I thought I would share it here to get some feedback on it.

Long short, The study took place from January to July 2020 at Beveridge Locks in Port Elmsley, Ontario. For this study I used population and diversity of wildlife present in the area which included, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, micro-invertebrates and macro-invertebrates, algae and diatoms.



The second part of this study I used micro-invertebrates and macro-invertebrates as bio-indicators to acquire a water quality assessment. Then I used algae and diatoms as bio-indicators to acquire an organic pollution assessment. Which resulted in the findings that the area of Beveridge Locks has an issue with high organic pollution originating from the wastewater sewage treatment plant located outside of Perth Ontario.

Links can be found here;

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AlytKAUpVrJdkBV20g2 ... f?e=N5Hz3a

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/be ... ada-report


Also on a side note... Does anybody know where the Carp in the Tay River came from and how long they have been in there? I've never seen them in there until now.

[smitty55]

Very interesting, tks. I'm curious as to who sponsored this study, is it part of a government program?

Cheers

[Wildlife_Scientist]

Very interesting, tks. I'm curious as to who sponsored this study, is it part of a government program?

Nobody sponsored it. I did it completely by myself with no funding or help. Mostly because after leaving college and university, nobody will hire me in the field forcing me to have to live in my truck, mostly. So I wanted to do a study mostly to use as a sample of my work kind of thing in hopes that it may help in finding employment. If I can show employers that I can do this work and do it well.

I only decided to share it to get feedback and also because of the results and being an avid angler myself, I think it's important for people to know what goes on in there watersheds given the results.

[smitty55]

Very interesting, tks. I'm curious as to who sponsored this study, is it part of a government program?

Nobody sponsored it. I did it completely by myself with no funding or help. Mostly because after leaving college and university, nobody will hire me in the field forcing me to have to live in my truck, mostly. So I wanted to do a study mostly to use as a sample of my work kind of thing in hopes that it may help in finding employment. If I can show employers that I can do this work and do it well.

I only decided to share it to get feedback and also because of the results and being an avid angler myself, I think it's important for people to know what goes on in there watersheds given the results.

Right on, good for you Jameson. Would you be cool with me sharing it on a FB fishing group with like 6K members?

[Wildlife_Scientist]

Very interesting, tks. I'm curious as to who sponsored this study, is it part of a government program?

Nobody sponsored it. I did it completely by myself with no funding or help. Mostly because after leaving college and university, nobody will hire me in the field forcing me to have to live in my truck, mostly. So I wanted to do a study mostly to use as a sample of my work kind of thing in hopes that it may help in finding employment. If I can show employers that I can do this work and do it well.

I only decided to share it to get feedback and also because of the results and being an avid angler myself, I think it's important for people to know what goes on in there watersheds given the results.

Right on, good for you Jameson. Would you be cool with me sharing it on a FB fishing group with like 6K members?

Thanks. Absolutely. You can share it if you wish.

[RJ]

Carp have been in the Tay for decades.

RJ