Pictou County Water Quality Data

The Pictou County Rivers Association (PCRA) started monitoring the water quality in the seven main rivers that run through our county in 2014. Approximately every two weeks from late May to early October, PCRA volunteers use portable water quality sensors to measure temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity at 2 locations on each river, one just above the head of tide and one in the upper watershed. The program has been conducted every year since 2014 so we have 7 years of data collected and plan to continue the program in 2021. The data collected is compiled and summarized each year and the results compared to previous year’s results and Canadian Water Quality Objectives for the protection of fish and aquatic life. The PCRA acknowledges the technical and financial support provided by the Atlantic Water Network at St. Mary’s University and the NS Salmon Association's Adopt a Stream program which make it possible to conduct this program.

Citation

Pictou County Rivers Association. 2024-08-29. "Pictou County Water Quality Data" (dataset). 9.0.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/0mg9-et50.

Funding Sources

Nova Scotia Salmon Association, Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation, Government of Canada through Canada Summer Jobs

Data Collection Information

A WetPro Kit supplied by the Atlantic Water Network (AWN) at St. Mary’s University is used to collect the measurements. The portable YSI multiparameter probe is calibrated before each monitoring survey following the protocols established by the AWN.

Data Processing

The data collected during the water quality monitoring surveys is entered onto field record sheets. Following the survey, the data is entered into an Excel spreadsheet. From there, the data is uploaded into the Atlantic DataStream.

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API Access

curl -G https://api.datastream.org/v1/odata/v4/Records --data-urlencode "\\$filter=DOI eq '10.25976/0mg9-et50'" -H "x-api-key: PRIVATE-API-KEY"

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