Ecological Values and Agricultural Drains 

A “hats-off” to Erin Carroll, our Aquatic Biologist, for her part in the research article “Ecological Impacts of Management Practices in Agricultural Drain Networks: a Literature Synthesis”. 

With over 80% of the Upper Thames River watershed being agricultural land-use, it is important that we better understand the relationship between our municipal drains and ecological resources, and the best management practices used in maintaining them. This project was a collaboration between Healthy Headwaters Lab, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Department of Integrative Biology, the University of Windsor, the Traditional Territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, and the University of Waterloo. 

To find out more, you can read the Canadian Water Resources Journal article here. 

Contact: Erin Carroll, Aquatic Biologist