{"id":107029,"date":"2022-07-21T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=107029"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:04:12","slug":"brome-lake-sees-1000-pounds-of-trash-collected-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/brome-lake-sees-1000-pounds-of-trash-collected-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Brome Lake sees 1000 pounds of trash collected over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, around 1000 pounds of trash was removed from Brome Lake as a result of a collaboration between Renaissance Lac-Brome (RLB) and volunteer divers from Faisons notre part, a Shawinigan based group that organizes scuba diving cleanups across Quebec. Volunteers from the community and RLB came together to oversee the safety of the divers as they collected items at the bottom of the lake, such as tires and beer bottles dating back as far as the 80s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done cleanups in the past. Like last year, we started with the clean-up of Coldbrook, which we did again this year,\u201d said Donald Joyce, member of the board for RLB. \u201cThe clean-up that was done over the weekend was done with a group called Faisons notre part. (\u2026) They partner with local groups, get together with people that want to take care of the lake, and do a clean-up.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Joyce said that the volunteer divers were nervous about heading into the lake because not everyone knows what a diver flag or a diver balloon looks like, and that\u2019s where the help of volunteers and members of RLB was needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey asked us, through RLB, to reach out to our community and look for volunteers to help keep them safe,\u201d explained Joyce. \u201c(\u2026) We have a little motor boat that RLB uses for our field work, we had two of our interns out on that, we had had one of our partners from OBV Yamaska join us on their paddle board, I was there in my kayak, and then there were two other paddle boarders who were friends and family of the divers that went out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each volunteer took on the responsibility of overseeing two divers by following their bubbles and the clean-up required a team effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very pleased they chose Brome Lake to do it and we were very happy to help them, help keep them safe, and help them collect trash,\u201d mentioned Joyce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The clean-up was concentrated near Camping des \u00c9rable in Foster, an area of the lake where, according to Joyce, has a lot of boat traffic. At the end of the day on Saturday, around 1000 pounds of trash was collected.<\/p>\n

\u201c1000 pounds of mostly bottles, half tires, and old junk that had just accumulated on the lake bottom over the last 30 years. We found one of the stubby beer bottles that I don\u2019t think have been made since 1985,\u201d noted Joyce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Joyce said that some of the trash was found just 200 meters away from shore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEither it was dropped from a boat or someone had been ice fishing and left it behind,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, RBL does not have other water clean-ups scheduled, but they are already planning for next season. Until then, they encourage people to play their part in protecting the quality of the lake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be really good if we didn\u2019t have to do clean-ups. So, if people could just be very cautious when out on the water to make sure they don\u2019t dump trash into the lake,\u201d said Joyce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, around 1000 pounds of trash was removed from Brome Lake as a result of a collaboration between Renaissance Lac-Brome (RLB) and volunteer divers from Faisons notre part, a Shawinigan based group that organizes scuba diving cleanups across Quebec. Volunteers from the community and RLB came together to oversee the safety of the divers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":107038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[928,14336,17043,698,926,12704,7780,13835],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107047,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107029\/revisions\/107047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107029"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=107029"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=107029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}