AEMP Technical Guidance Document, Volume 4 (GNWT, 2009)
A technical guidance document providing comprehensive recommendations for designing and implementing aquatic effects monitoring programs (AEMPs) for development projects in the Northwest Territories. The document outlines five main steps: selecting appropriate monitoring program designs (control-impact, before-after, gradient, and regional reference designs), choosing sampling locations, determining effect sizes, calculating sample sizes, and establishing sampling frequencies, along with considerations for statistical analysis, reference station selection, and program evaluation.
- Date
- 2009-06-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Zajdlik & Associates Inc., MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd., Environment Canada, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board, Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, Gwich'in Land and Water Board, Sahtu Land and Water Board, We'eezhii Land and Water Board, Northwest Territories Water Board
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Rockwood, Ontario, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Mackenzie River Basin, Hudson Bay, Arctic Ocean, Yellowknife River
- Parameters
- water quality, aquatic effects monitoring, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish abundance, fish species richness, chemical concentrations, nickel, copper, sediment quality, dissolved oxygen, effluent discharge, biotic assemblages, habitat classification, geomorphology, hydrology, trophic status, sampling frequency, statistical power
- Pages
- 62
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