AEMP Technical Guidance Document, Volume 2 — Guidelines for Designing and Implementing AEMPs in the NWT (MVLWB, June 2009)
Technical guidance document providing recommended procedures for problem formulation to support the design of Aquatic Effects Monitoring Programs for development projects in the Northwest Territories, including eight-step process for identifying stressors, evaluating effects, characterizing exposure pathways, and selecting assessment endpoints.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd., Zajdlik & Associates Inc., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, CH2M Hill
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Rockwood, Ontario, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tri-State Mining District, Spring River Basin, Mackenzie Valley
- Parameters
- aquatic effects monitoring, water quality, chemical contaminants, environmental fate, bioaccumulation, sediment quality, exposure pathways, ecological receptors, fish populations, benthic invertebrates, amphibians, birds, mammals, metals (arsenic, cadmium, copper, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, total suspended solids, ammonia, phosphorus, biological oxygen demand
- Pages
- 195
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