Prince Edward Island · Acadian Forest & Atlantic Coast
Fall · September 16, 2026
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Where your water goes
Your sub-basin
Prince Edward Island
then
Atlantic Ocean Seaboard
It arrives here
Atlantic Ocean
Everything that falls here works its way east and north to the Atlantic. It is the drainage that carried the fur trade inland and the log drives back out, and the one Atlantic salmon and American eel still use — the eel travelling the whole length of it to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.
Basin 01C (Canadian sub-drainage area)
The river right now
337%
of the ten-year median for this date · 4.9 m³/s against 1.4 normally
very highWell above normal. The river is moving gravel and wood, the banks are undercut and unreliable, and this is the state in which people drown. Watch it from the bank. It is dropping, roughly 27% over the week ahead.
Bedrock and soil figures are modelled from national geological surveys and global soil mapping, at a resolution of a few hundred metres — right for the shape of a district, not for a particular garden. River discharge is modelled, not gauged. For anything that matters, dig a hole and look.
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The soil it made
What that means
Comfortable for woodland plants and a little tight for the vegetable garden. Brassicas sulk, and clubroot is worse at this end of the scale.
Happy here without a fight
Blueberries, raspberries, potatoes, rhubarb, carrots, most conifers, azaleas and hydrangeas — which come out blue here.
If you want the rest
A dressing of lime in autumn brings the vegetable beds up without touching the fruit. Leave the blueberries well alone.
Working it
Water runs straight through, so it dries fast and warms early — you can work it days after rain and sow ahead of heavier ground, but it needs watering and feeding more often because both wash out.