Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Nipigon Lagoon Eco Dive - Debris month of action, removing industrial and household debris thrown down a hill into the lagoon.
20 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- Len Mason
- Number of Participants
- 19
- Total Debris Collected
- 2000 lbs (estimated)
49.014882, -88.260905
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Nipigon Lagoon Eco Dive - Debris month of action, removing industrial and household debris thrown down a hill into the lagoon.
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Eco Divers Thunder Bay
- City
- Nipigon
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- 20 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 5 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 49.014882
Longitude: -88.260905
- Weather Conditions
-
rainy - then overcast
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–30 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 100 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- Forest lined lagoon
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Balls | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 1 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 10 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 3 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 5 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 10 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cars & Car Parts | 5 |
| Drums: 55 Gallon | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 25 |
| Batteries: Car Or Boat | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 4 |
| Tires/tyres | 123 |
| Rubber Fragments | 5 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 6 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| Toys | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| stove | 1 |
| Transmission | 1 |
Additional Information
123 tires - bottom of a hill that used to have a Canadian Tire store. Loggon used as an unofficial dumping ground for 100 years.
Stove and car transmission
Transmission weight was about 130 pounds
Stove had to be put on small barge
many tires
Comments and Feedback
How do we get a Project Aware banner?
We plan on doing an event here for many years as the township plans on having more water movement, therefore, removing silt and uncovering more debris that can be removed.
