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Sudbury’s acid-damaged lakes have made a faster recovery than experts thought possible. According to John Gunn, director of the Vale Living with Lakes Centre at Laurentian University, this is “proof positive that clean air produces clean water.”
Since the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1990, a lot of research has been done on a national and international level on the recovery process of severely damaged lakes. Researchers have done a lot to investigate the different factors that go into that recovery.
This year, the Vale Living with Lakes Centre launched the Community Restoration of Acid Damaged Lakes, or CRADL, with the support of Vale, Laurentian University, and the Ontario ministries of Environment, Conservation and Parks, and Natural Resources and Forestry.
CRADL’s main purpose is to assess the status of fish populations and food webs in acid damaged lakes, and to determine the success of recent attempts to reintroduce certain species back into the water.
The initiative planned to take samples from 20 lakes this summer, and about 60 more in the near future. There are currently three crews of students working on the project, including interns from an Indigenous environmental Keepers training program.
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