SWEPS Shubenacadie Watershed Environmental Protection Society
The Shubenacadie Watershed Environmental Protection Society (SWEPS), is a non-profit community-based organization concerned with the quality of life and the environment in the Shubenacadie Watershed. Our main area of focus is the headwaters of the Shubenacadie Watershed, concerned with water quality, habitat protection and trail construction.
Latest Post
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TRAIL REPAIRS: THANKS TO THE TRANS CANADA TRAIL FOUNDATION
After the disastrous rainstorms in July, two of our trails suffered washouts in numerous locations. Fortunately, thanks to the Trans Canada Trail Foundation, we were able to put the Lake William Wetland Trail and the Blue Hill Coach Road back in order. The TCT provided the funding needed to hire a backhoe and deliver several…
Trails
SWEPS operates many trails in the community
Aerotech – Holland Road Connector Trail
Big Dam / Black Powder Trail
Blue Hill Coach Trail
East Hants Community Trail
Fall River Village Sportspark Connector Trail
Holland Road Trail
Water
SWEPS monitors and provides habitat protection to many of the bodies of water within the watershed boundaries
Water Monitoring Program
- Cyanobacteria and Blue-green Algae
Habitat Protection
Latest Blog Posts
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iNaturalist.org
iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature. It’s a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common…
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ID FIESTA
Join SWEPS and iNaturalist for a FREE event capturing species in our watershed! (with our cameras and cell phones of course) SWEPS has partnered with iNaturalist which is joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society devoted to understanding and documenting biodiversity on our wonderful planet earth. Kids, families, individuals,…
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Lake William Trail will Close on November 5, 2018
The Lake William Trail will be closed to the public on November 5th, 2018 to allow for the construction of a cable bridge across the CN Tracks.
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Bennery Brook Rock Throwing
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AGM and Open House
Gordon Snow Community Centre Multi Purpose Room Saturday Jun 16, 2018 10:00 am – 2 pm (Preceded by the AGM at 9:00 am in the boardroom) Scotia Material will display Information and answer questions about the proposed Goffs Quarry Expansion Please Join us to learn what is happening in your watershed See you…
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Floating Loon Nest Platform installed at Soldier Lake
Last week Robert and Tom built and installed a floating Loon nest platform near the dam on Soldier Lake. These structures have increased brooding success elsewhere on lakes with fluctuating water levels. Thanks to Tom and Robert. Lets hope we will see some chicks there this year or next.
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Lake William Trail
The Lake William Trail is currently (March 2018) under construction. There is no through route from Rocky Lake Road to Portobello. Hikers and walkers who use the northern section off the Rocky Lake Road, do so at there own risk.
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An Evening with Dalhousie’s Dr Gagnon
Hello all SWEPS and Water Quality Enthusiasts: The SWEPS Water resources subcommittee is pleased to present Dr. Graham Gagnon as our guest speaker next Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 pm at the Gordon Snow Centre in Fall River. Dr. Gagnon, a professor at Dalhousie University has been leading various water quality research teams working on…
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old trail from weekly
The big news this summer is that we were successful in securing funding for a design study on 7 of our top 15 trails. Designing will be done in the Summer and Fall of 2013. The following trails were eligible for funding and represent approximately 13 linear kilometers: Trail #1 – Old Coach TrailTrail #4…