New Brunswick · Acadian Forest & Atlantic Coast
Fall · September 16, 2026
City of Saint John, New Brunswick
Where your water goes
Your sub-basin
St. John
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 01A (Canadian sub-drainage area)
The river right now
140%
of the ten-year median for this date · 19.1 m³/s against 13.6 normally
highRunning high for the date. Water will be pushy and coloured, fish will be tucked into the slack water at the edges and behind obstructions, and crossings that are normally easy are not. It is dropping, roughly 14% 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
Well below what most vegetables want. Phosphorus and molybdenum get locked away at this pH, and aluminium becomes soluble enough to hurt roots — so plants can sit in fed soil and still go hungry.
Happy here without a fight
Blueberries, cranberries, rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers, potatoes, conifers and most woodland ferns.
If you want the rest
Lime raises it, slowly — autumn is the time, and it takes a season to move. Test before and after rather than guessing; overshooting is harder to undo than undershooting.
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.