Acid Rain

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regions that are near the Great Lakes,
such substances as limestone or other known antacids can neutralize acids
entering the body of water thereby protecting it. However, large areas
of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or
granite based geology and little top soil, there is not enough
buffering capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on
the soil and the lakes. Therefore over time, the basic environment shifts
from an alkaline to a acidic one. This is why many lakes in the Muskoka,
Haliburton, Algonquin, Parry Sound and Manitoulin districts could lose
their fisheries if sulphur emissions are not reduced substantially.

ACID

The average mean of pH rainfall in Ontario's Muskoka-Haliburton lake
country ranges between 3.95 and 4.38 about 40 times more acidic than
normal rainfall, while storms in Pennsilvania have rainfall pH at 2.8 it
almost has the same rating for vinegar. Already 140 Ontario ...

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responsible in the
United States for annual losses of $2 billion to 4.5 billion worth of
wheat, corn, soyabeans, and peanuts. A wide range of interactions can
occur many unknown with toxic metals. In Canada, Ontario alone has lost
the fish in an estimated 4000 lakes and provincial authorities calculate
that Ontario stands to lose the fish in 48 500 more lakes within the next
twenty years if acid rain continues at the present rate.Ontario is not
alone, on Nova Scotia's Eastern most shores, almost every river flowing to
the Atlantic Ocean is poisoned with acid. Further threatening a $2 million
a year fishing industry.

THE DYING

Acid rain is killing more than lakes. It ...

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