St. Lawrence River temperature

[Littlerayray]

Just dove lock 21 this afternoon the water was a balmy 48 degrees

---------- Post added November 5th, 2015 at 10:33 PM ----------

Yep I'll be diving till the ice covers the river and even then I don't think it will stop me much well nothing a chainsaw can't fix

 

[Littlerayray]

Ok just dI'd a drift dive this afternoon at lock 21 water temp was 50f yeah I know not many of you are diving and have hung up your fins for the season but it was a great dive with great vis gonna be diving at the cornwall harbor moving junk on saturday and Sunday I will be doing a drift dive at the bottle dump in morrisburgh but that may change to lock 21 I will keep you all posted with the water Temps

 

[jeangadbois]

If you need a dive partner let me know im still diving

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[gcarter]

diving dry or wet?

 

[jeangadbois]

Dry

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[dreamdive]

Are they really dumping raw sewage in it?

 

[jeangadbois]

Yep

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[Pinecube]

Are they really dumping raw sewage in it?

Yup, though there are plenty of cities in canada whos overflow pushes sewage into waterways. For exmaple; Ottawa overflow sends sewage into the Ottawa River which leads to the St. Lawrence and that's been going on for decades. I was watching the news a few days ago and they showed a list of 5-6 major Canadian cities that routinly dump into waterways. It had numbers of how much gets dumped by each city but I can't really comprehend the scale in the first place; what does 8billion litres of water look like? I haven't found that list online yet.

 

[Littlerayray]

Yes I'm diving dry and just for kick an above ground swimming pool holds about 25k liters of water

---------- Post added November 13th, 2015 at 02:02 PM ----------

To put this in perspective 600,000 gallons flows over niagara falls every second

 

[gcarter]

Any city with a combined sewer system is almost certain to have overflow events pushing sewerage into their waterways. On top of those who dump deliberately.