Good Morning #Canada It's a brisk -23°C this morning but the infallible #Weather app is telling me that we will be -5°C or warmer over the next few weeks.
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@lorimolson
Not cool Lori, you forced me to go back and check sources...3 different sources used "tons" (Wiki, UBC, and Fraser River Industrial Association) I think they are all using data from a 1996 study. Lazy bastards.
20 million tonnes would be a lot but 20 million tons is no slouch.
@paulbusch it wasn’t the amount I was questioning so much as the mix of measurement systems. Km2 and tons
️But yes, lazy bastards
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Good Morning #Canada
We're only at #11 on our ##CanadaRivers countdown but it's legendary for a number of reasons. The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 km into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river drains a watershed of 233,100 km2 and each year it discharges about 20 million tons of sediment into the ocean. Named for explorer Simon Fraser, the river courses through more than a half-dozen distinct geo-climactic zones, North America’s most diverse indigenous landscape and the essence of B.C. history.
It's a relatively young river, at just over 9,500 years old, and also virtually pristine through it's upper reaches because of #Salmon. The river attracts millions of spawning Salmon every year and the fishing industry fought to keep the Fraser from being dammed to protect spawning grounds.Good Morning #Canada
We're now getting to the big ones... as we break into the top 10 in #CanadaRivers. The South Saskatchewan River is #10, beginning at the confluence of the Bow and Oldman Rivers in southern Alberta and ends at the Saskatchewan River Forks, the confluence of the South and North Saskatchewan Rivers which then becomes the Saskatchewan River. Flowing for 1,392 km it drains a watershed of 146,100 km2, 1,800 of which are in Montana, USA.
Major dams were constructed on the river to prevent flooding, for reservoirs, irrigation, and for hydroelectric power, The South Saskatchewan provides approximately 19% of the hydro-electricity generated by SaskPower. A 2009 WWF Canada report analysed the river flow on ten Canadian rivers & found the South Saskatchewan River was most at risk. Climate change, agricultural & urban infrastructure water use, and dams producing hydroelectricity, have all combined to reduce the flow of the river by 70%.#CanadaIsAwesome #Hydrology
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/a-prayer-not-a-protest/
