{"id":189332,"date":"2025-04-16T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=189332"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:44:41","slug":"citizen-scientists-help-friends-of-the-muskoka-watershed-identify-sources-of-road-salt-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/citizen-scientists-help-friends-of-the-muskoka-watershed-identify-sources-of-road-salt-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen scientists help Friends of the Muskoka Watershed identify sources of road salt pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: This report is possible thanks to the work of seven citizen scientists who collected data for Dr. Neil Hutchinson. Two of those are Joanne Smith (left), and Sandy Cairns (right). Centre is Dr. Neil Hutchison.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizen science is making a difference. It&#8217;s impacting Muskoka\u2019s road salt research and future plans for Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW)\u2019s SALTYMuskoka education project. Dr. Neil Hutchinson, science director and FOTMW board member, completed the report: Citizen Science Observations on Road Salt in Muskoka.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know that lakes in Muskoka are threatened with toxic chloride from our use of road&nbsp; salt. Data from eight citizen scientists testing in 27 different locations over two years,&nbsp; highlights important sources for rising chloride readings and records some levels that are&nbsp; of concern. The study enforced the value of citizen science and what it can accomplish.&nbsp; The learnings can be applied to work in FOTMW\u2019s SALTYMuskoka program to inform&nbsp; residents on how to reduce road salt pollution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur big finding, which wasn\u2019t really a surprise, was that it\u2019s possible to pinpoint those&nbsp; areas of high salt loading by using measurements made by citizen scientists and thinking&nbsp; about where the sources might be,\u201d he says. Lakes with elevated chloride levels all have&nbsp; major winter-maintained highways or urban areas in their immediate catchments and road&nbsp; salt is applied to these areas in winter. While this much is known, it is important to pinpoint&nbsp; areas in the watershed with much higher chloride levels than others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had eight citizen scientists sampling in 27 different places, measuring conductivity as&nbsp; a surrogate for road salt,\u201d he says. A conductivity meter is used to determine salt levels by&nbsp; measuring a solution&#8217;s ability to conduct electricity, which is directly related to the&nbsp; concentration of dissolved ions, including those from salt. The more salt in a solution, the&nbsp; higher its conductivity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 27 locations, four were significant contributors of chloride. \u201cWe learned that in some places in Gravenhurst and Bracebridge, the road salt coming off a parking lot has about half the seawater concentration of chloride. We know that water that is this salty is&nbsp;harmful to Muskoka\u2019s aquatic life,\u201d explains Hutchinson. This serious input of road salt&nbsp; can have harmful effects on many of the animals living in our lakes, as well as our cars, our&nbsp; clothes, our pets\u2019 feet, and our infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen one looks at the watershed report cards by the Muskoka Watershed Council, it can&nbsp; be seen that certain areas like Gravenhurst Bay are getting worse over time,\u201d he says.&nbsp; \u201cThat&#8217;s because of this accumulation of road salt.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hutchinson&#8217;s report recognizes the value of citizen scientists. \u201cCitizen scientists can do a&nbsp; lot more than any one scientist can do on their own,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe have an army of&nbsp; people that can go down to the foot of their driveway and make an observation and&nbsp; measurements. They can go down to the nearest storm drain or creek, and they can do that&nbsp; frequently because it\u2019s close to where they live.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizen scientists take a personal interest in their project and research. \u201cThey take that&nbsp; interest forward,\u201d he says. \u201cI think that sometimes politicians get tired of hearing bad news&nbsp; from scientists but when they hear that from the average citizen, they are more inclined to&nbsp; pay attention.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SALTYMuskoka is a new Friends of the Muskoka Watershed education and outreach&nbsp; program to help people identify and manage road salt pollution in their areas. Alesha&nbsp; Breckenridge, FOTMW\u2019s SALTYMuskoka Project Lead will use this citizen science report.&nbsp; \u201cThis study will guide our educational programming for SALTYMuskoka. The goal is to&nbsp; empower people to learn how to reduce their personal road salt use to protect our watershed,\u201d says Breckenridge.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the link to Dr. Hutchinson\u2019s report <a href=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025%2F04%2FFMW2025-02AR-Road-Salt-Pollution-in-Muskoka.pdf\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: This report is possible thanks to the work of seven citizen scientists who collected data for Dr. Neil Hutchinson. 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