Aquatic Effects Monitoring Program (AEMP) Technical Overview Working Document, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, January 1998)
This technical overview document describes the Aquatic Effects Monitoring Program (AEMP) framework for the BHP Diamonds Project (Ekati), detailing objectives, valued ecosystem components (VECs), stressors of potential concern (SOPCs), monitoring parameters, and a tiered implementation approach to assess project impacts on aquatic ecosystems in the Northwest Territories.
- Date
- 1998-01-27
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., EVS Environment Consultants, Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA), Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Ekati Diamond Mine, Koala drainage basin, Coppermine River catchment, Kodiak Lake, Panda Diversion Channel, Nema Lake, Slipper Lake, Moose Lake, Vulture Lake, Grizzly Lake, Nanuq Lake, Counts Lake, Lac de Gras, Misery Lake, Long Lake, North Vancouver, British Columbia
- Parameters
- water quality, sediment quality, fish abundance, aquatic habitat, sedimentation, contaminants, total suspended solids (TSS), turbidity, Secchi depth, light transmission, aluminum (Al), nickel (Ni), pH, calcium (Ca), nitrate, ammonia, dissolved oxygen, temperature, phytoplankton, zooplankton, periphyton, benthos, Arctic grayling, habitat compensation, Panda Diversion Channel effectiveness, stream discharge, climate, total organic carbon (TOC), grain size, fish health
- Pages
- 53
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