Victoria is infamous for its practice of discharging screened, but otherwise untreated, municipal sewage into Juan de Fuca Strait. Starting in early 2013, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has been partnering with Victoria’s Capital Regional District to help measure the impacts of their outfalls on the local marine environment.
With ONC’s help and expertise, two special purpose bottom moorings capable of measuring the salinity, temperature, and amount of dissolved oxygen in the water were deployed near the sewage outfall to look for signs of oxygen depletion or hypoxia. These two moorings—at Macaulay Point and Victoria Sill...
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