The Ram Pasture Marsh occupies the inside of an ox-bow meander in the main stream of the Tantramar River. This plan was used to assess dyke maintenance within the Sewer District. Individual properties are indicated on the plan and N. Bradford Carter, as Commissioner of Sewers, was responsible for the allocation of maintenance work and the assessment of appropriate taxes on the property-owners. The dykes are clearly shown, as are the various aboideaux. With the hay economy at its height, many areas of marsh, including those that were relatively difficult to enclose such as the Ram Pasture, were dyked. Within two decades of the date of this plan, the ox-bow meander would be cut off and the Ram Pasture would become an island.