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STORMWATER
Fighting Salt with Science
Community scientists make the di昀昀erence
BY DR. NORMAN YAN AND SANDY LOCKHART
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WATER C AN ADA • SEP TEMBER/OCTOBER 2025
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Sandy Lockhart is the
communications director
of Friends of the Muskoka
Watershed.
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S A SMALL ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITY, Friends of the
Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW)
recognizes the value of community scientists. These volunteers
play an integral role in helping FOTMW
address two widespread threats to Muskoka’s lands and waters: calcium decline,
a legacy of acid rain, and excessive use of
road salt.
“We are a science-based organization focused on protecting Muskoka’s watersheds,
and it’s not just professionals that can be scientists,” explains Dr. Norman Yan, director
and founder of Friends of the Muskoka
Watershed.
Community scientists are community
members who volunteer to help collect the
data or support the experiments that underpin the knowledge that FOTMW and the
Dr. Norman Yan is the founding
director of Friends of the
Muskoka Watershed.
Friends of the Muskoka Watershed
Community Scientist Carol Latimer and her daughter Alison Hanson sampling chloride levels on Three Mile Lake in Muskoka.
