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Since 1994, more than 1,000,000 volunteers have registered to clean up thousands of kilometres of shoreline. Together, they have removed over 2,000,000 kilograms of litter from Canada's shorelines. Participants are encouraged to register to clean up a specific site in advance, or volunteers can join a cleanup that's already been registered.
In 2017, IISD-ELA launched a three-part study to determine the impacts of diluted bitumen on boreal freshwater systems and shoreline clean-up methods. [63] Results published in 2020 have thus far indicated that most phytoplankton and zooplankton species exhibit an acute sensitivity to oil spills, as communities decreased by >70% in overall ...
Covering 125 square miles (80,000 acres), it stretches about 150 miles (240 km) from the Canada–US border to Grand Coulee Dam, with over 600 miles (970 km) of shoreline; by surface area it is the largest lake and reservoir in Washington. [1] It is the home of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a program that was initiated by the Vancouver Aquarium by a small group of staff members and volunteers in 1994. These employees had heard about the International Coastal Cleanup and decided to participate in it by picking up garbage at a local beach and submitting the information. [55]
Lake Erie on May 28, 2022, taken from the International Space Station Partial map of the Lake Erie Islands Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [ 8 ] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2 ) [ 7 ] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km ; 209 nmi ) [ 7 ] and breadth of 57 ...
Between 2002 and 2006 Transport Canada spent over $4 million to clean up properties in the harbour to stricter environmental standards. [9] BC Hydro and the Federal Government have undertaken a $2 million clean-up of the eastern shore of Rock Bay which was once the site of a coal gasification plant. [9]
The Saint John, New Brunswick harbour cleanup infrastructure project brought an end to the routine release of raw sewage into Saint John's waterways. The $99 million initiative [1] involved the finishing of a third wastewater treatment plant east in the city, and redirecting of the existing outfalls to lift and pumping stations. [2]
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]