Dye tracer testing may turn Grand River red in Brant, Six Nations

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Dye tracer testing may turn Grand River red in Brant, Six Nations

 

 

November 09, 2009 / www.grandriver.ca

 

 

During the last two weeks of November, officials from the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), in partnership with the Six Nations of the Grand River Public Works Department (Water / Sewage Division), will place a safe, environmentally-friendly, “fluorescing” dye into the Grand River near Brantford and Newport, and Fairchild Creek near Cainsville, temporarily giving these watercourse systems a red tint.

 

The study is part of a Ministry of the Environment-funded program to assess the vulnerability of municipal drinking water supplies.

 

The undertaking is known as a "dye tracer test" – a common way to determine travel time in watercourses for the protection of the water supply intake.

 

The tests will involve injecting the dye at three locations over one to two days and the measurement of travel time and dye dilution at downstream locations. The test may appear to turn the watercourses red temporarily where the dye is placed. It will dilute quickly as it moves downstream, eventually becoming invisible. The dye tracer test is one component of a series of water supply source protection studies the GRCA is conducting with Six Nations in support of the Ontario Clean Water Act.

 

 

 

For more please contact:

Frank Montour, Acting Director of Public Works, Six Nations, 519-445-4242

James Etienne, Senior Water Resources Engineer, GRCA, 519-621-2763 x 2298

Scott Robertson, P.Eng., Water Resources Engineer, Stantec Consulting Ltd., 519-585-7297

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