Water and Temperature Monitoring

This summer Andrew McIntyre and Gerald Tingley, of AMEC have been measuring temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity and pH in the Petitcodiac River region of the Petitcodiac River causeway at high and low tides when tides and personnel availability opportunities coincide. They conducted this work both on foot and from a boat immediately upstream and downstream of the causeway. The objective of this monitoring is to determine the degree to which the scour hole downstream of the Causeway gates, and the deep water region upstream of the gates stratify into cold saltwater (bottom) and warm freshwater (top) layers under various tidal conditions.

The captions are:

Carrying meter and probe on the mud flats downstream of the causeway;
Various probes to measure salinity, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen etc.
Gerald Tingley with probe and meter.