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Ottawa Riverkeeper’s road salt monitoring initiative has uncovered alarming levels of chloride in local creeks for the past 4 years. We explore what the program is finding this year, and how we continue to evolve our monitoring to make it faster, easier, and cheaper to keep tabs on our local freshwater ecosystems.

As we greet 2022, we are surely in the heart of winter in the National Capital Region (NCR), as we see toques all around, winter sports are going strong, and snowplows are becoming an everyday sight. Monitoring the effects of road salts on our aquatic ecosystems has been a major undertaking at Ottawa Riverkeeper in the past few years, and this winter we are continuing our work while expanding the program throughout the city.

We had a blast at the 8th annual community paddle down the Bonnechere River!

Find out more about how the Law on toxics must be reformed.

Help us share the message that we need a new, inclusive and collaborative approach to protecting our river.