Cape Breton Regional municipality - A Community of Communities

 Glace Bay

A happy group on the Watershed Walk October 15, 2011

  

MacAskill Brook Dam Reservoir

Drinking water for Glace Bay, Dominion, Reserve Mines, Tower Road, Donkin, and, as of 2011, Birch Grove, is supplied from the former AECL Reservoir on MacAskill Brook in Birch Grove. The MacAskill Brook Dam reservoir watershed includes all the lands and streams which drain into the reservoir and encompasses 3700 hectares (over 6600 acres).

Looking northeast over Cow Bay Road and the MacAskill Brook Dam Reservoir to Big Glace Bay Lake and Sand Lake in the distance, August 2008.

The link above takes you to the web page for the Birch Grove and Area Source Water Protection Planning Committee, who are helping to prepare Source Water Protection Plans for three sources: MacAskill Brook Dam Reservoir, Sand Lake, and John Allen Lake. 

MacAskill Brook Dam Reservoir Maps

Source Water Protection Plan

If you are interested in attending a meeting of the Birch Grove and Area SWP committee or have any questions or concerns related to the Glace Bay water supply watershed please contact the watershed coordinator.

Britt Roscoe
Watershed Coordinator
Phone (902) 563-5551
Fax (902) 564-0481  
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