Research Projects

Fertilizer response and soil health.

Quantitative and qualitative study of maple syrup production wastewater.

IRDA has been mandated to design, install, and operate a hydrometric station at the watershed outlet of Ruisseau aux Castors in the Brome-Missisquoi regional county municipality.

This project will assist with the ongoing hydrometric monitoring of the flux and quality of water in Ruisseau Bouchard.

This project will develop a procedure that relies on genetic markers to identify the animal species responsible for fecal contamination.

Project to restore the rainbow smelt spawning grounds at the mouth of Rivière Boyer on the St. Lawrence River.

Steps are being taken throughout the watershed to preserve Rivière-Ouelle's water quality.

Development of optimized cleaning methods that are readily measurable with an effective real-time indicator.

Project to determine the real value of the phosphorus load associated with bison production in Québec.

The Rivière de la Roche sub-watershed has one of the highest phosphorus and sediment export rates of the entire Missisquoi Bay watershed—a particularly challenging situation for the local agricultural sector.

Quantification of the scale of soil displacement and net sediment production in the past 50 years for various soil textures and compare these results with those generated by modeling the watershed with SWAT.

The IRDA team is monitoring the hydrology of the three main watersheds in Saint-Zotique.

The objective of the project is to co-develop, with producers and local water management organizations, potential adaptation strategies to prevent water use conflicts in farming communities in the face of climate change.