Monitoring the remediation of Halifax Harbour after 250 years of contamination

这项建议将涉及在哈利法克斯港首次引入新的污水处理系统后监测缓解进展的问题，此前250年的未经处理的污水被放置在该港。虽然在引入处理后将对水质进行监测，但真正的问题是在沉积物中遇到了真正的问题，因为目前没有计划抽样或监测变化。鉴于现在港口有捕鱼业捕捞龙虾等底栖动物，重要的是了解港口中积累的是什么，以及是否会随着缓解进展而减少。我们的计划是利用哈利法克斯地区市政当局(HRM)提供的船舶时间收集与水样本一致的海底样本，并监测底栖有孔虫和其他生物群以及这些样本中的重金属和多环芳烃，以缓解2006-2007年夏季第一个处理厂到来后的进展

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