Monitoring the remediation of Halifax Harbour after 250 years of contamination

该提案将解决监测缓解进展的问题后，一个新的污水处理系统是首次引入哈利法克斯港后，250年的原污水被放置在港口。虽然在引入处理后将对水质进行监测，但在沉积物中遇到了真实的问题，目前没有计划取样或监测变化。鉴于港口现在有捕鱼业，捕捞龙虾等底栖动物，因此必须了解港口内积累了什么，以及随着减缓措施的进展，积累的量是否会减少。我们的计划是利用哈利法克斯地区市政当局（HRM）提供的船期，收集与水样一致的底栖样品，并在2006-2007年夏季第一个污水处理厂建成后，随着缓解措施的进展，监测这些样品中的底栖有孔虫和其他生物群以及重金属和多环芳烃

This proposal will address the issue of monitoring the progress of mitigation after a new sewage treatment system is introduced to Halifax Harbour for the first time after 250 years of raw effluent being placed in the harbour. Although there will be monitoring of the water quality after treatment is introduced, the real problems are encountered in the sediments where there is currently no plan sample or monitor changes. Given the fact that there is a fishing industry in the harbour now that harvests benthic animals such as lobsters, it is important to know what is accumulating in the harbour and if it will decrease as mitigation progresses. Our plan will be to utilize ship time provided by the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to collect benthic samples coincident with water samples and monitor the benthic foraminifera and other biota together with heavy metals and PAH's in these samples as mitigation progresses after summer of 2006-2007 when the first treatment plant comes