Stream Restoration

SWEPS restores and enhances streams in the Shubenacadie Watershed through the Adopt-A-Stream program, improving fish passage, stabilizing streambanks, and protecting aquatic habitats.

Restoring Healthy Waterways

Healthy streams are essential for supporting fish populations, improving water quality, and maintaining biodiversity. Through the Adopt-A-Stream program, SWEPS has been actively restoring and enhancing streams across the Shubenacadie Watershed. Our projects focus on removing barriers to fish passage, stabilizing streambanks, and improving aquatic habitat.

Adopt a Stream Reports

SWEPS participates in Nova Scotia’s Adopt-A-Stream program to restore and enhance freshwater ecosystems throughout the Shubenacadie Watershed. Through this program, we’ve completed dozens of stream restoration projects that support fish passage, reduce erosion, and improve habitat health.

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Stream Restoration – Field Reports

Get an in-depth look at SWEPS’ stream restoration work through our comprehensive field reports. These detailed documents go beyond our standard Adopt-A-Stream summaries, capturing site conditions, restoration goals, before-and-after assessments, and long-term impact on aquatic habitat. Each report offers a thorough record of the planning, implementation, and ecological results of our restoration efforts across the Shubenacadie Watershed.

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Our Latest Stream Restoration Work

Discover our most recent efforts to restore and enhance local streams, from improving fish passage to stabilizing banks and revitalizing aquatic habitats.

  • Adopt a Stream 2024 Report

    Over summer 2024, SWEPS completed in-stream restoration on Bennery and Black Brooks, including five new digger logs, bank stabilization, and debris removal. Following major 2023 flooding, restoration crews also assessed fish passage impacts at Laurie and Annand Brooks. The season improved over 800m of stream habitat and 750m² of riparian zone, with support from volunteers,…

  • 2024 Bennery Brook Stream Restoration Report

    Bennery Brook 2024 Stream Restoration This summer, SWEPS restored 208 meters of Bennery Brook through digger log installation, thalweg development, and debris removal to improve fish habitat and flow. Despite setbacks from storm washouts and highway runoff, the team observed a return of trout, Kingfishers, and other species—an encouraging sign of ecological recovery in this…

  • SWEPS Hosts Brook Cleanup Following Restoration Work

    SWEPS volunteers returned to Black’s Brook on July 31 for a post-restoration cleanup. Teams worked to improve flow over digger logs and remove debris from the brook and surrounding area.

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Our Streams

Explore our past and ongoing stream restoration projects, highlighting the impact of our efforts each year to improve aquatic ecosystems in the Shubenacadie Watershed

Annand Brook

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Bennery Brook

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Black’s Brook

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Golden Lake Stream

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Holland Brook

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Laurie Park Brook

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Skerry Brook

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Tillmann’s Brook

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