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The Muskoka Watershed Council is back to running some of its programs after losing a year of data because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watershed Planning Technician Rebecca Willison says it’s “imperative” water sampling gets back in full swing as soon as possible. Some of the council’s program has gotten underway, but since they were unable to run most of them last year, the work planned for 2020 is being done this year, while this year’s work is being pushed back to 2022. That includes testing the water in the lakes in Muskoka. “Postponing it for a year was fine for us and it actually just gave us a little more time to go over our methods and develop a good protocol and adjust what needs to be adjusted,” Willison says. Now, she adds the team has a much better handle on the pandemic and what protocols they need to put in place.