The Milk River Watershed Council Canada (MRWCC) has monitored the Milk River and some of its tributaries since 2006. This report is a compilation of water monitoring data collected in 2023 and 2024, with reference to the results from the…
In 2024 the MRWCC will be creating a comprehensive inventory and distribution of bats and amphibians, with emphasis on the endangered Little Brown Myotis and Northern Leopard Frog across private lands within the Milk River Watershed. This is to help…
A final update and completed summary of the Securing a Home For Bats Project.
Background Availability of safe, secure drink-ing water supplies is a part of the quality of life for Albertans. Water for Life is the Government of Alberta’s strategy for water. The strategy is intended to help manage both water quality and…
Development of a method for differentiating fecal E. coli versus naturally occurring (environmental) E. coli in surface water
The MRWCC initiated the project to address the increased public concern regarding potential sources of fecal contamination in a few
locations on the Milk River.
It is important to maintain unused wells during prolonged periods of non-use. Settling of fine clay particles on infiltration galleries may cement wells in if they are not being regularly pumped.
This project seeks to understand long-term changes in macroinvertebrate communities within 5 selected reaches of the Milk River, in southern Alberta.
The supplemental water supply investigation aimed to determine the feasibility of augmenting summer flows in the Milk River with water drawn from the Milk River Ridge Reservoir located on the Waterton-St. Mary Headworks system (Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. 2008).
The Milk River Watershed Council Canada (MRWCC) commissioned a Study of Sedimentation and Erosion on the Milk River to better understand streambank erosion occurring each year.