White believes that much of the silt now in the river may be partially coming from a construction site about 20 kilometres away on Route 126. A culvert had plugged during hurricane Dorian and the New Brunswick Department of Transpiration was forced to dig out the road to let flood waters flow down stream, White said.

“Given the fact that just the very amount of water that they were dealing with it certainly posed a problem for them,” said White.

But now he worries it will be a problem for the fish.